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Speaker 1: you cope with your anxiety and your panic attacks? What
Speaker 1: would you say would be a good first step? Talk
Speaker 1: about if you don't have anyone, there's always someone, even
Speaker 1: if it's on the internet. Acknowledging it out loud is
Speaker 1: stop number one to me, Like being like I think
Speaker 1: I have anxiety, that moment is huge. And also it's
Speaker 1: the littlest things that I changed in my life that
Speaker 1: helped me manage this, not drinking coffee anymore, eating right,
Speaker 1: and treating my body well because a lot of it
Speaker 1: had to do with what I was eating. But the
Speaker 1: one that's really hard for a lot of people is
Speaker 1: cutting bad people out of your life. And I'm naturally
Speaker 1: an empathetic person. I want to help people, but it's
Speaker 1: a blessing and a curse. It's like I will do
Speaker 1: anything for the people I love to the point of
Speaker 1: it destroying me, and people around me were giving me anxiety.
Speaker 1: The people I dated up until who I'm dating now
Speaker 1: gave me horrible anxiety. Anything else I'd say, really learning
Speaker 1: how to breathe. I know that that sounds kind of silly,
Speaker 1: does not to me. I don't think I've ever breathed
Speaker 1: properly up until like two years ago. Really learning how
Speaker 1: to breathe, like into your gut, into your entire body.
Speaker 1: Breath work is so huge. Breath work is like my medication,
Speaker 1: Like it really is something where I'll breathe, come out
Speaker 1: of it and be like, oh my god. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know. But I think the most important one, though,
Speaker 1: is just dropping the expectation that people have. Everybody has
Speaker 1: their own version of that. Whatever expectations your teachers, your professors,
Speaker 1: your boyfriend, girlfriend, whoever puts on you, drop it. Love that.
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