How to calm yourself

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>K lets say you start feeling nervous.From whatever reason(fight,school,work,test,w.e) and you feel like your heart is pounding really fast,then you feel the fear/anxiety in you and even sometimes you feel like you are going to faint.
How can you quickly calm yourself down at that moment</p>

<p>Like for example i heard that valerian root(pills that calm you down) or/and menthol tea do the job.
What are the other ways that you can calm yourself down at that moment?</p>

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<p>erm…eat chocolate? when i’m anxious or stressed out i play tennis. i think playing a sport might help you than taking pills; you get your physical excercise yet at the same time you feel great.</p>

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<p>Terry Pratchett ftw.</p>

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<p>Writing or drawing is usually my best escape. I have so many impromptu caricatures of my instructors stashed in my notebooks.</p>

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<p>If i’m ever erally mad, I play bball outside for a while. I do that if I really need to think about something as well. Pick up a sport or drink the tea, I suggest staying away from pills (unless for suer they’re 100% organic). Don’t some people meditate for this type of thing? Maybe do that (idk that much about it…I stick to any sport). Best wishes! :)</p>

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<p>Sports is definitely a great outlet, but it doesn’t help you ON THE SPOT… It’s more of a long term thing… You train every day for a few month, and you’ll see that your stress level just drops.</p>

<p>There are a lot of breathing exercises that one can do though… They are supposed to work immediately.</p>

<p>[Taming</a> the Fight or Flight Response - Breathing Exercises for Anxiety](<a href=“http://bipolar.about.com/cs/altercomp/a/0304_breath2.htm]Taming”>Overactive Fight-or-Flight Response: How to Calm It)</p>

<p>Just google breathing exercises for anxiety… Tones of match!</p>

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<p>Actually, sports do help me on the spot, well as long as I have a ball of some sort & somewhere I can play. But then again, I have played sports since I was like 5, so I have years of practice. When i’m angry/sad/upset, I just go out in my driveway and bombs away! </p>

<p>Quote: “There are a lot of breathing exercises that one can do though… They are supposed to work immediately”</p>

<p>Totally agree, that’s exactly what I was thinking.</p>

<p>BTW, anybody know how to post stuff in “quote boxes”? Hope that you understand what I’m saying!</p>

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<p>Breathing or music helps me calm down.</p>

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<p>Drinking cold water generally helps me calm down.</p>

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<p>^that works</p>

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<p>Thanks fairy_dreams & ThisCouldBeHeavn! :)</p>

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<p>Watch TV, read a book, and a hot shower. FTW! Those three things make the best combo for me :)</p>

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<p>Call of Duty 4.
Nothing like taking your anger out on a bunch of random people over Xbox Live by shooting them in the face.
After you did that, you feel much better.</p>

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<p>Sleeping fixes everything.</p>

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<p>^I agree completely.</p>

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<p>Music and ice cream.
Or I just call my best friend and rant.</p>

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CoD4 is a joke. Play Gear2-- gunning people down and splattering them to death with a shotgun is what I do. Or beating their faces in with a sniper rifle, blowing their head off their shoulders with a rifle, or just taking a pistol and whipping them upside the head. Very good peaceful feeling knowing you just slapped up some random scrubs. :P</p>

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<p>yeah ranting to a friend helps so much…but i havent talked to my close friend in like 3 days and it seems like forever…lol</p>

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<p>Playing sad, emo-esque songs on the guitar</p>

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<p>I calm myself down by listening to classical music:></p>