Dear human, I hope you are doing fine. Thank you for reaching out and sharing your concern. With the lockdown, a lot of aspects and situation of normal everyday life has changed and what you are feeling is completely normal. A lot of anticipation and overthinking can cause serious anxiety, depression, stress to your mind and body, etc. I suggest you should consult a therapist at the earliest.
But in the meantime there are a few tips that will help you take care of yourself and make you feel a bit more comfortable:
1. 5-4-3-2-1 exercise - Whenever you feel like you’re getting into the spiral of overthinking or you feel stressed out, take few slow and deep breaths and name five things in your environment that you can see, four things that you can hear, three things that you can touch, two things that you can smell and one thing you can taste.
2. Keep a journal handy and put your thoughts down as is, whenever you are in the midst of such thoughts.
3. Exercising is a great aide in keeping yourself from engaging in troublesome thoughts. You don’t have to per se join a gym if you don’t want to but light stretches, some breathing exercises would do the job too.
4. Try identifying the triggers for your overthinking because awareness of these triggers or warning signs helps in consciously reducing them and also avoiding those triggers or distracting from them.
5. Try focusing on your hobbies and interests or anything that you love to do. It can be as simple as taking a walk, watching a movie, reading a book, playing a game, etc.
As there is not sufficient information to identify the thinking patterns, we could get on a session and discuss further.
Next Steps
Please book an appointment with me via practo, we could go about understanding the underlying reasons for anxiety and how it can be resolved.
Hope to hear from you soon. Take care :)