Stress

The best way to deal with stress, anxiety and such is to sleep, which is actually very difficult to achieve when stressed. But sleep is the only natural way to interrupt thinking process (it continues but on a different level) thus letting your mind rest from spinning in circles of thoughts about situations that traumatized you. They use sleep therapy on patients with schizophrenia too.

Valerian is a very good natural relaxant, there is never too much of it, it's a herb. I prefer drops. Sometimes it contents melatonin (compound that regulates the sleep-wake cycle ). It'll help to relax and fall asleep.

Physical exercises. Simple push-ups for the beginning work well. (especially for panic attacks and anxiety - 10 push-ups, then 30-40 drops of valerian, then lie down)

No cigarettes, coffee, alcohol etc (any CNS stimuli)

And switch to completely different topic in your thoughts. Brain has the ability of pushing away traumatic memories if it's unable to deal with them atm, so help it do it. You will think about it or look for solutions later, when you are okay.


Following those, whoever has stress should be healing up slowly. If that doesn't help then it's time to see a professional and get more serious treatment