Your experience is interesting: entrepreneurs take a lot of responsibility with lots of uncertainty - feeding lots of raw material directly into the anxiety disorder. How and where did you learn your techniques for managing your anxiety? How long did it take before you were able to see positive changes? Any diet and/or daily routine changes?
>How and where did you learn your techniques for managing your anxiety?
Trial and error over a period of about 8 years. Lots of suggestions from folks. Some worked out, some didn't. Lots of incremental change, but mediation, exercise, stoic journaling, and therapy were the big 4 leaps I made. The therapy mostly focused on process orientation and self esteem/self worth for me personally.
>How long did it take before you were able to see positive changes?
Usually a few weeks with any of the 4 above. If I keep in my routine I usually can feel positive change within 1-2 weeks.
>Any diet and/or daily routine changes?
Limiting alcohol helps a lot. Generally avoiding processed foods and high sugar or starch foods helps. Supplements are a very mixed bag, but vitamin d, vitamin b, fish oil, magnesium, a mens daily vitamin help. Everything else either had no effect or negative effects for me. Also it seems silly but drinking enough water is a big deal.
>Wouldn’t it be less stressful to get a job?
Almost certainly it would be easier. Though a different more existential anxiety sets in after a while whenever I stop working on my own thing so it's a bit of give and take.
Thanks for answering. I find it valuable to understand how others manage their emotional states. I find regular exercise, meditation and good sleep hygiene to be effective. I'm reading about stoic journaling now. I did not know about this.
Wouldn’t it be less stressful to get a job?