Well, you’re very right many great suggestions.
I do puzzles. Crosswords. 3 per day.
Mostly my days are filled with calculation and measuring. In so many ways. And I have about a 9th grade level math proficiency. That makes stuff difficult for me on a good day. If my BG is low or high I start getting weird. This is why I need a smart women like Ivy to rein me in.
Of course my Borg implants do the real heavy lifting.
She hasn’t said “just breathe” yet.
It’s coming tho’
You might find ACT helpful for anxiety. It’s good for psychologically managing chronic illness. It really kind of saved me in a way, because I was trying to make my mental health perfect for many years. And I was talking to my ACT therapist, and he was like, “Hey. Your issues are probably never going to go away completely.”
It sounds counterintuitive but it was such a relief. I didn’t have to obsess over fixing it anymore, and ironically that made me start to feel better.
Meditation is also good. I need to be doing it now but I fell off the wagon. After several months of Zen meditation almost nothing could really get to me.
ETA: I love the New York Times crosswords before bed, but lately I’ve had a lot of anxiety at night. It’s related to my job.
When i was a kid, transcendental meditation was “in”. Everyone had a secret mantra to recite. It involves breathing, much like the “box breathing” described above. But rather than counting seconds, i say my mantra to myself.
I picked “123,456” as a mantra. Hey, it obviously doesn’t matter what it is.
So i breath in on 123456
Hold my breath for 123456
And breath out slowly on 123456123456
I focus on my breathing and on the words. I find it very calming. I have measured and my pulse and BP go down when i do this.
Y’ever watch Bob Ross - The Joy of Painting??
Cf. Carl Winslow’s mantra on Family Matters:
Three, two, one!
One, two, three!
What the heck
is bothering me?
I’m pretty sure i picked mine before that was made. 
To minimize stress and anxiety, it’s highly recommended that you avoid clickbait about how These Dozen Foods will wreck your heart, cause dementia and kill you prematurely, especially if said warnings come from a Top Cardiologist jackass named Gundy.
Some websites are absolutely infested with this crap. The limit was when I saw one handwaving link accompanied by a photo of blueberries and salmon, both of which I consume on a regular basis and nothing has ever hap
Clearly something happened.
Oh no! Another victims of sudden blueberry salmon syndrome!
Ever watch comedians? Mitch Hedberg (may he rest in peace) is a little strange , but if you need to take your mind off things…
