Why Am I So Hyper and Anxious? 10 Coaching Practices to Try
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Practices that may help
- Using neuroticism as a stress diagnostic
High neuroticism means a more reactive threat-detection system — use it as a cue to build more robust regulation strategies, not as a verdict.
The Big Five Personality Model - Understand why magnesium helps with stress reactivity, not just baseline anxiety
Magnesium doesn’t tranquilize — it turns down the sensitivity of glutamate-driven excitatory signaling.
Magnesium and Anxiety, Made Practical - Maintain hydration to support the caffeine-anxiety cycle
Mild dehydration amplifies caffeine’s anxiogenic effects and mimics anxiety symptoms.
Caffeine and Anxiety: What the Research Actually Says - Redirect from self-focus to external attention
When anxiety spikes, deliberately anchor attention to a specific external sound or object.
Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical - Recognize when caffeine is worsening anxiety, not helping performance
Caffeine increases cortisol and norepinephrine — at high doses or under stress, it amplifies anxiety rather than focus.
Strategic Caffeine Use - Exercise to lower anxiety
Use movement to discharge physical arousal and recalibrate the alarm system.
Exercise for Mental Health - Recalibrate arousal as readiness, not threat
Reinterpret pre-performance anxiety as energy and readiness rather than evidence of inadequacy.
Mastery Experiences - Arousal Reappraisal: "I’m Excited, Not Anxious"
Reinterpret physiological arousal as excitement rather than anxiety — they share the same physiology.
The Yerkes-Dodson Law: Finding Your Optimal Performance Zone - Situational attentional refocusing: shift from self to situation
In anxiety-provoking situations, actively redirect attention outward — to the task, the other person, the environment.
Metacognitive Therapy, Made Practical - De-activation Strategies for Over-Arousal
Use targeted techniques to reduce arousal when anxiety or over-activation is undermining performance.
The Yerkes-Dodson Law: Finding Your Optimal Performance Zone
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I take stress harder than other people seem to and it lingers in me way longer after the thing is over
- Lately the smallest things set me off way out of proportion
- By mid-afternoon I’m getting the dry mouth, the racing heart, the trouble focusing, and I read it as anxiety
- In the middle of a stressful moment I get hyper-aware of my own racing heart and how I’m coming across, and watching myself like that only cranks it higher
- On the days I’m most stressed I drink the most coffee to push through, and instead of focused I just feel more keyed-up and on-edge
Related concerns
- Why Do I Feel Anxious And Hyper
Use movement to discharge physical arousal and recalibrate the alarm system.
Exercise to lower anxiety
- Does Anxiety Affect Your Ability To Focus
Deliberately focus on one distinct sound source among several and hold attention there.
Selective attention to individual sounds
- Why Am I So Anxious And Jumpy
Use movement to discharge physical arousal and recalibrate the alarm system.
- Why Am I So Jumpy And Anxious
Magnesium doesn’t tranquilize — it turns down the sensitivity of glutamate-driven excitatory signaling.
Understand why magnesium helps with stress reactivity, not just baseline anxiety
- Anxiety And Speed
Use targeted techniques to reduce arousal when anxiety or over-activation is undermining performance.
De-activation Strategies for Over-Arousal
- Anxiety Reappraisal Performance
Reinterpret physiological arousal as excitement rather than anxiety — they share the same physiology.
Arousal Reappraisal: "I’m Excited, Not Anxious"
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