Anxiety management training

Anxiety management involves learning skills that will help you cope better with anxiety symptoms. People usually try a range of anxiety management techniques to determine what helps them most. Anxiety management techniques are used to reduce the intensity of symptoms and the distress they create.

It is not enough to understand the principles behind these techniques; they must be practiced repeatedly until they can be employed easily and automatically, almost without thinking about them.

Five commonly used techniques for anxiety management are:

• breathing training
• relaxation
• assertiveness training
• positive thinking and self-talk
• thought stopping

Anxiety management training may be helpful in GAD, SAD and PTSD.