All of us experience stress and anxiety at some point in our lives but the difference here is that we experience different levels of these emotions. Some of us can still go on with our daily lives while we cope with stress and anxiety but there are others who have a difficult time facing these so much so that they are unable to function normally.
There are a lot of ways that may help us deal with anxiety and stress and one of them is keeping yourself busy. This may work for you as it keeps your attention on other things instead of you sitting alone and focusing on your own problems. You can go to the gym to exercise. You can visit your family and friends and catch up with them. You can focus on finishing your work.
Keeping yourself distracted may be effective in dealing with anxiety and stress but the problem with it is that once you are done doing all of the things that you need to do and you find yourself idle, it is highly likely that you would return to thinking about your problems. At the same time, distractions are just a way for you to actually avoid dealing with what you are feeling. It does not exactly solve the problem.
The only way for you to truly overcome stress and anxiety is to assess the situations that trigger them and see if these are connected with how you see and feel about yourself. You may have past experiences and embedded beliefs, which you have reacted to negatively, that are somehow related to situations in your life and that may be causing you a great deal of anxiety and stress. You need to realize that your past experiences are already in the past and you would be able to ensure that they would not happen again. As for beliefs that other people has embedded in you about you, assess if they are real or otherwise. Usually, they are false so, it is best for you to let them go and by creating an adequate and realistic self-image, you would be able to know your real strengths and weaknesses. Always bear in mind that you are the primary person who would know the real you.
