>>44062628So there’s only a few non-medicine related coping techniques. The small tip is basically a thing you do to jolt yourself back into things. First is when something needs to be done, set an alarm. Say what needs to be done out loud and set a 5 minute timer. Work on it for 5 minutes. If you keep trying until you can do this, that 5 minutes can reduce your stress hormone production, and alleviate the anxiety. It’s about learning how to push yourself into the first step to trick your brain back into realizing that the worrying was worse than the action, but it’s just a technique.
The real thing that works is the hardest one, because me being here also proves it. It’s forcing yourself into complete boredom, with the thing you need doing being the only the you have as an option to alleviate it. The brain is trying to to find any stimulation to increase its dopamine intake because people with anxiety, adhd or depression tend to receive lower doses of motivational dopamine. An experiment was done where they put people in a room, isolated and made them wait for 20 minutes, with nothing but a button that would shock them. 67% of the participants shocked themselves, rather than being bored. Boredom without stimulation is both the shackle and the key. So the idea here is to reduce your options of distraction so the only thing you CAN do to alleviate the low boredom tolerance is to work on the thing you need being done.
