How Do I Overcome My Noise Anxiety

How do I overcome my driving anxiety?

Anxiety while driving can be a good thing. When driving anxiety keeps you from driving, you may want a method to overcome the anxiety. To eliminate driving anxiety, you have to change your belief systems. Below is one easy way to raise you limited belief systems. For more details, check out this free course on details by clicking here.As a math instructor teaching college students, I looked for a way to help students change their belief systems about math. Then I found a method I used to change one of my belief system - my anxiety about housework!First, let me cover the steps to change your belief system. Follow these below and let me know how these worked for you.Identify one reason causing your driving anxiety. Consider the one time you felt your driving anxiety when the traffic was busy. Whatever causes your anxiety, write it down.Determine the level of intensity of the identified emotion. Based on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being the least emotion and 10 being the most intense emotion, determine what level of anxiety you feel right now about the situation.Tap on the negative emotion. I know, all our lives we have been told to be positive. But being positive doesn’t mean we don’t have negative thoughts subconsciously. Let’s identify the negative so we can release it. Begin using four fingers of either hand and tap on the fleshy part of the other hand (between your smallest finger and your wrist) and repeat “Even though I feel anxiety about (insert your identified situation causing the anxiety), I deeply and completely accept myself and this emotion.” - repeat three time. Then repeat the phrase “This anxiety” while tapping on the following places on your body: 1) top of the head near your crown; 2) inside edge of your eyebrow over your nose; 3) outside of eye; 4) under your eye; 5) under your nose; 6) under your lips; 7) on both side of your collar bone; 8) about 4″ under your armpit; and 9) back on the top of your head.Take a deep breath in through your nose.Exhale slowly through your nose.Take a sip of water.Rate your level of your emotion. Similar to step 2, check the level of your anxiety. Sometimes the level goes up, stays the same, or goes down. There are different reasons for each type of change. Return to step 3 until the level goes to zero.Try these steps to find out how you feel. Let me know how you are doing. If you want a chart of the different locations on your body, check the chart on the free course by clicking here. Good luck!

How should I cope with noise anxiety?

I'm sorry that this is so annoying for you. I actually appreciate your bringing this up because I have the same problem and I have never been able to simply call it noise anxiety. I have a close friend who keeps their TV turned on, all the time. And at the loudest volume so they won't miss anything that gets said. Argh! I have another friend that may decide to call me on the phone, and while we are talking, she is also talking to other people. It took me awhile to realize she was doing that. Now when she starts with someone else, I just hang up. It took her awhile to figure this out, but she finally did.If my TV is on, then there must be something I want to see. So if the phone rings, I don't answer it. If someone comes in the room talking to me, I will ask them to wait until a commercial. And then when the commercial comes, I mute the sound. I absolutely have no tolerance for excess noise and I have no problem saying so.Now the situation you are in reminds me somewhat of a noise problem I have that I can't do anything about it. My next door neighbor is very industrious and likes to have all their projects done 1st thing in the morning. This is mowing the lawn, cutting down trees, carving out some great thing from wood, and on it goes. They are very nice people and they do some highly commendable work and I don't want to get the neighbors mad at me so I tolerate and say nothing. I am always thinking that I need to get a set of noise squashers - headphones - that will drown out all noise. Every time I think about this I get concerned that there is no such thing. And if that is true, then someone needs to invent a pair immediately! I will also play my favorite music either through the headphones or as loud as I can stand it. I've been known to use those ear plugs that you push into your ear and then I tie a scarf or something over my head that covers my ears.But your last sentence is what I think it comes down to. You either do what you said of playing the white noise or you move. I'm sorry I don't have anything better to offer.Good luck to you!

How do I deal with noise anxiety?

Often, we are able to tune out a lot of background noise such as a clock ticking or a fridge humming. When we hear sudden and loud noises, many of us are startled. For some people, even sounds that they hear everyday can trigger anxiety and panic. Noise anxiety can thus cause a lot of distress because we are surrounded by noises in different forms, and only rarely are we in complete silence.Some ways that you can deal with noise anxiety are:If it is possible, try to tune out the noise that is causing anxiety. You can try putting on earphones and listening to music that calms you. Ensure that this is not done in an environment that requires you to be able to hear for your safety. You can also use a fan as background noise or listen to calming music if you are unable to sleep because of the noise.Changing the environment may also help in reducing your anxiety. This could mean that changing your job or shifting to a smaller city may help you deal with your noise anxiety.Sensory processing disorders like autism can also cause sensitivity to certain noises, which means that you hear the sounds louder than they are. In these cases, it is best to approach a mental health professional to decrease sensitivity to those sounds, over time.Make note of the particular noises that make you anxious. This way you can be prepared in those situations with self-soothing and relaxation strategies like deep breathing; or by putting on earphones to block out the noise.If this noise anxiety is getting in the way of your sleep, work or daily activities, reach out for professional help. A therapist can help you manage your response to the triggering noise, as well as the associated disturbances.You can visit Online Counselling | Online Therapy | InnerHour to book a session.All the best!

How can I overcome social anxiety as a teenager?

I wasn’t actually aware that I was suffering from social anxiety before. I got to know it very recently what I had was social anxiety.I thought it was my own weakness due to not getting much exposed to social situations and when there’s a big crowd, I feel nothing but panic.Here’s what I did to overcome social anxiety:1. Take 100% responsibility:Since I didn’t know it was social anxiety (neither my parents because they had no knowledge about it), I decided that I have to take 100% responsibility for myself to get rid of this nervousness.You cannot easily overcome this feeling unless you take 100% charge of your life and the situations you get to experience around.2. Do it anyway:Yes, that’s one thing you should keep adhering to. No matter how worse the situation could become, you just have to do it.Though it was very tough to be conscious of what’s happening and to get myself under control, I had no choice. I just surrendered to situations because that was the only way to get hold of it. The more I made myself to get exposed to such situations, the more I felt strong and easier to fight against it.It was, in fact, the compulsion that helped me a lot to overcome social anxiety.3. Don’t overthink:Most people who have social anxiety tend to overthink a lot about social situations. We visualize all worst things that could possibly happen or when we are in such situations, we do not want anyone to know so we choose the other way to suffer as much as possible.The best way is not to overthink but to act swiftly. If you are feeling overwhelmed and not being able to control it anymore, ask someone’s help or let someone know about it. Don’t pile up yourself with unnecessary thoughts like what other people would think of you or how they will look at you after this.Since people are becoming more aware of social anxiety, there will always be a hand ready to help you. So never shut yourself out of the opportunities you get, because life is too short and there’s no going back. Let your families and loved ones know what you are going through so they will always support you no matter what.Hope this helps! :)

How do I numb myself from anxiety?

Recent research suggests that anxiety problems are largely a part of peoples biological make-up. People who develop anxiety disorders are usually very sensitive to anxious feelings (called anxiety sensitivity or meta-worry), kind of like how someone is allergic too pollen. Luckily there are proven techniques (more specifically attitudes) that offer significant relief. In this case, the key aspect to treatment of anxiety is not trying to rid yourself of anxiety for good, but rather to develop a different relationship too anxiety (known as acceptance) so that ultimately you become more tolerant to anxious feelings and when anxious feelings do come up you aren’t surprised by them and you know how to deal with them effectively. Remember acceptance isn’t “I am stuck with my anxiety forever so I better just learn to deal with it.” Acceptance is developing a new outlook on anxiety so that it is no longer an unwelcome intruder, consequently starting your road to recovery.Basically the active ingredient to anxiety treatment is willingness to do exposure whether situational of imaginal. However when you do exposure it has to be free of struggle. In other words anxiety feeds off resistance, so the more you fight your anxious feelings the more they will intrude into your awareness. It is actually better to allow them and even welcome them. Better yet you could even externalize anxiety as a bully and ask it to make your discomfort worse! If you do that (and actually mean it) anxiety doesn’t know what to do and it loses it’s power. You have become the boss and anxiety the subject, instead of the other way around.Even nowadays anxiety is still very misunderstood, including among a lot of therapists. Improving requires you do things that are very paradoxical in nature and common “coping” techniques offer little long term benefit. Luckily in the last 10 years there has been huge progress made in the field. I’d suggest reading some books about it (attached below). These authors are the leading experts in the field! Good luck!Stopping the Noise in Your Head: The New Way to Overcome Anxiety and Worry: Reid Wilson: 9780757319068: BooksKey Concepts, Insights, and Interventions: Martin N. Seif, Sally Winston: 9780415828994: Neuropsychology: Amazon Canada

How did you overcome performance anxiety? Along with “facing your fear,” how else were you able to calm the noise in your head? Or prepare yourself mentally for the task?

Just remember, we only learn from our mistakes. Every performance is learning situation. Every comic falls flat until he learns what produces an audience cheer or silence. Every actor must replace a set and an audience with the ‘reality’ of his character and the guts to keep the audience on his role. Think of your act and hit it hard. Your next performance will improve over the last. Save the noise in your head for the noise of cheers.