Hello I’m Charlie and welcome to authentic mental health, the channel that offers advice
and friendly support within our like minded community!
This is the first video in our brand new playlist anxiety hacks, the videos in this playlist
will be anxiety hacks that I personally use to help me with my anxiety and we will be
sharing hacks that you use to help you with your anxiety too!
Before this video starts I want you to head into the comments section right now and comment
what hacks or things you use to help you with your anxiety.
This is known as a stress ball, they where originally invented to help reduce stress
and tension but over the years people have found that stress balls have many other health
benefits too including
Reliving arthritis pains Lowering blood pressure
Improving concentration and creativity Strengthening muscles
Improving sleep Increasing positive energy
Removing anger
And what I use it for, my anxiety!
When you have an anxiety attack your body release adrenaline with nowhere to go, that’s
why your anxiety attacks usually last a long time because the adrenaline has nowhere to
go!
During my anxiety attacks I squeeze my stress ball which helps remove the adrenaline flowing
through my body, it also helps me in form of distraction, it distracts me from the anxiety
attacks and gives me something else to focus on This helps me get out of my mind an focus
on the present.
I also use this stress ball when I feel generally anxious for the same reasons, by squeezing
this ball it helps me focus on something else other than my anxiety or what’s causing
me to feel anxious in the first place.
You can use a stress ball in many different ways too, my favourite way that help me with
my anxiety are holding the ball in my hand and squeezing as hard as I can for 5 seconds
then relaxing my hand, I do this as many times as I need too.
There are so many benefits for using a stress ball to help you with your anxiety, they are
small so you can take them anywhere with you, they can fit in your pocket so you can take
them to school, work, the supermarket, pretty much anywhere you go, you can take this ball
with you to help you with your anxiety.
Stress balls are also cheap and don’t cost a lot of money, I purchased this one from
amazon for a couple of dollars, if you’re interested in getting a stress ball for your
anxiety I have left links to my favourite stress balls I have used and tried in the
description box
down below.