How do you deal with anxiety?

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I take Buspar but that doesn't help much. My main issue is everything has to be a certain way planned out and such. I got a disability call and not sure I screwed it up I was in the middle of cooking my little sisters breakfast which totally confused me. I was upset and stressed and sort of angry the rest of the day.

Now I had an SSI call today I had anxiety all day over and it was only 20min. no big deal but I was shaky in my voice (I could tell) and real nervous and after I hung up on the verge of tears so I grabbed a beer. I guzzled it. It gave me a buzz and I laughed and felt better.

Tomorrow I have another call between 8 and 10 AM so "planned" but no idea WHAT they will ask. I've seen so many doctors so many pills what if I mess up? What if I forget to mention something? What if I forget an example of my issues? (to which I have plenty WP if you've seen my past post).

Outside of "faking" confidence I'm at a loss? Do they NEED to see you incoherent on the phone or fake it like some f**k YOU *insert tough character* This is a professional call but you need to be confident and able to handle yourself not sure a f**k YOU mentality is the right one.

Hope the call goes ok tomorrow and I wish I had other anxiety fixes outside of alcohol.

I got my (renewed) medical marijuana license in the mail today. I enjoy it more than alcohol and there are all sorts of options for how to consume a plant. I suppose there's always the vodka watermelon though *sidenote: with or without beer, hops are good too, they're pretty mild if you add them to tea you already like.

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Alcohol is my drug of choice.

When dealing with health professionals I have learnt that it is important to show dysfunctionality, and after doing so I reach for my diazepam which is wonderful.

(But you have to be ever so careful with diazepam use...)

I kind of have that problem too. Sometimes when I feel anxious I become fixated on whatever I'm worried about. Then I just start feeling overwhelmed with anxiety and frustration so I end up drinking to try to forget about whatever it is or at least try to make myself numb from all the stress. Something you might try instead though is taking slow deep breaths before you start talking to the other person on the phone. Also heard that smiling while talking on the phone can help, but I'm not sure how true that is. If you think about it afterwards you could try doing things to distract yourself like exercising, listening music or doing something that requires a lot of concentration. Some of these things I mentioned at least help me a little.

I take Buspar & it helps my anxiety alot. Perhaps your dose needs to be higher. I also occasionally take Klonopin as needed.

Marijuana and my Valium(daizapam or whatever its spelled) prescription....I have used alcohol for that, but doesn't seem like in the end it works all that well.

I literally drug myself up with whatever I can get my hands on. Prescription pills, alcohol, etc.. I hate life, mine in particular because everyone is a b***h.

stay in the comfort zone, play video games, go on the internet, draw, eat.

as long as i don't do anything else im okay

distractions.