Learning to Ease Your Anxiety

Tips for Easing Anxiety

Type 2 diabetes is tough to manage. Add anxiety on top of it and you’ve got yourself a full-time job.

It’s not uncommon for people with chronic illness to suffer from anxiety as well. Sometimes the anxiety existed before your diagnosis, but often the anxiety develops as a result of the chronic illness.

Anxiety creates a vicious cycle that is hard to get out of. However, if you take steps to ease your anxiety before it gets out of hand, you have a greater chance of keeping your diabetes in check.

Simple techniques, like meditation, yoga, exercise, laughter, herbs and deep breathing, can be implemented at home to stop anxiety in its tracks. Have you tried these methods for anxiety relief?