How to Help Someone with Anxiety

If you do not suffer from anxiety or panic attacks, it can be frustrating trying to figure out how to help someone with anxiety. There may be times you feel overwhelmed or feel they are just overreacting. Sometimes all anxiety sufferers need is someone to be supportive.

Follow these tips for how to help someone with anxiety:

1. Get Educated about Anxiety

If you are not familiar with anxiety--the symptoms, the effects, the cause--it can be difficult to understand what someone suffering from anxiety is going through. Take the time to learn about anxiety.

2. Be Supportive and Patient

Anxiety can be extremely scary. If you have never experienced an anxiety or panic attack, you have no idea just how frightening it can be. Be patient with your loved one. Be there for a shoulder to cry on or for someone to talk too. Sometimes just listening to someone with anxiety can really help them through tough times.

3. Be Encouraging

Having someone who is positive to talk to can really help someone with anxiety. Be encouraging and let them know you are there for them. Take time to make them feel important and validate there feelings.

Encourage the person suffering from anxiety to get help. They don't have to continue suffering needlessly. There is so much help available for anxiety sufferers such as medication, therapy, self help programs, online communities and forums--lots of help is available.

4. Walk the Recovery Journey with them

If you know a person suffering from anxiety and they choose to reach out and get help, walk with them. If they are going to therapy, go and wait in the waiting room as support. If they choose a self help program, go through the videos or ebooks with them. It can be so comforting to know that someone really cares and wants them to feel better.

5. Get them The Linden Method

This is a self-help program like no other. Giving this self-help program as a gift to someone suffering from anxiety could be the best way to help someone with anxiety.

This is the program I personally used, and I am so grateful that I literally stumbled across it. Before this program, I was going to counseling twice a week and was on an anti-depressant, anti-anxiety medication and a sleeping pill--my anxiety was horrific--I immediately started feeling better the day I started the self-help program.

If you really want to know how to help someone with anxiety, get them this program! Check out this video on Charles Linden, the founder of this amazing self-help program.

As I said, I personally used the Linden Method myself to overcome anxiety. Though, I realize what works for some does not work for all. There are lots of other self-help programs and ebooks out there. Never give up hope. To recover from anxiety requires a healing journey inward. It can at times be scary, but the end results are well worth it.

Remember, if you want to help someone with anxiety, get educated about anxiety, listen and be patient, be encouraging, and walk beside them in their healing journey. Never give up hope, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

If you want more information on the Linden Method, on anxiety in general, or just need some support, you can check out my website about Anxiety Health Issues. I am always more than willing to answer questions or lend an ear for anyone in need.

Here is another video on the Linden Method: