Organise your life to make it less anxiety filled.

Everybody has that anxious feeling when something doesn't happen when it should and  emotions run from frustration, anger to worry. After all everything in our society is done by agreements and when anything doesn't meet those agreements it's a bother. So  when things are disorganised we are bothered to the point of  being anxious.

Ultimately the only thing that any of us has control over is our reaction to something. It is also true that if it can happen it will happen so something is going to turn up during the day which wasn't part of the plan! I have never had a mental health event in my life corresponding to anxiety or anything else  although there have been many times when I have felt anxious. Our feelings are situationally dependent. I did music at school 56 years ago, got paid for playing in bands  and if you don't have anxiety doing that you are simply not gonna do it properly. So anxiety is an important life guiding principle and feeling .

This is why   a plan for organising each day is useful and at minimum some part of it will be achieved . That's important for those that have anxiety problems. My youngest son was diagnosed with anxiety quite a few years ago and I wasn't surprised that after the medicine  and  therapy   didn't work for him I had to think of something else. My  observations that people who organise their lives suffer less stress and anxiety kicked in, as did my reading about how animal therapy has been used with people in mental health institutions going right back to the Victorian era.  Even now people can go to places to look after animals to  reduce the severity of whatever mental health  problem they have.

 In consultation with my wife we reckoned that if our  lad gets   involved with a dog  it will organise his life  and his anxiety symptoms will reduce   . We were correct. On the first morning when my son had cleaned up the mess his Guide Dog Puppy from the Guide Dogs for the Blind had left in its cage I knew that things were going to be okay because he had got up at 5 AM. In the previous two years he had a job getting out of bed before 3 PM  .  My son organising his life around the routine of training a Guide Dog Puppy had allowed him to manage his mental health condition positively and the effect was permanent .

The practical effects of organising your life are so you can daily win something which reduces the  feelings of anxiety. With my son those effects were permanent. After that year of being a Puppy Walker for the Guide Dogs for the Blind he got a job. After a couple more years he bought his own house. He still has feelings of anxiety but they are much reduced precisely because of the long-term effect of proving to himself that something that helped him to organise his life positively affected how he responds to the feelings of anxiety. As he says, his job now organises his life and helps him to feel good everyday!