When people find themselves in situations of high stress, they tend to feel anxious and resort to fidgeting. It may be clicking a pen, tapping a pencil, or biting your nails. It is how your subconscious reacts to keep your mind from being overwhelmed by the triggers of stress. That’s when fidget toys come in handy. They can help you calm your nerves in stressful situations, by shifting your focus and temporarily freeing your mind from stress triggers.

Public speaking is a nerve-wracking experience. You feel anxious and your terrified that you’ll make a fool of yourself. But it’s not uncommon for people to have a fear of public speaking. Public speaking is scary especially when you tie in social pressure. It’s a normal fear that you can overcome.

You can lower your anxiety of public speaking and increase our confidence by avoiding a few poor habits while incorporating these helpful tips. The following are five tips for reducing public speaking nervousness. While the butterflies may never go away completely, there are still some things you can do to help clear your head before your big moment.

The feeling of being overwhelmed is something that kind of creeps up on us very slowly, then hits like a ton of bricks. It often starts subtle making us feel rushed. Then once we’re pushed out of our comfort zones we start losing control bit by bit. We then lose sight of what we are trying to do and most importantly we end up struggling with what we need to get done.  As a result, we become negative and start complaining and blaming everyone and everything, but ourselves. It can often leave us feeling stressed and depressed at times. When you find yourself feeling like you can’t handle or cope with circumstances give one of these coping methods a try.

Dealing with depression requires action but, when your feeling depressed taking action might be a difficult thing to do. When your feeling depressed, stressed, or anxious you may feel drained, hopeless, and a lack of drive. Making it difficult to take the steps needed to feel better. It’s important to start small and build from there. Feeling better isn’t an overnight process it takes time but, you can get there making positive choices. Take it one day at a time and soon you’ll find yourself lifted out of the fog of depression and feeling happier, healthier, and more hopeful. Next time you find yourself feeling stressed, anxious, depressed, or overwhelmed try one of these coping strategies.

In a few weeks, I will be attending Planet Comic-Con. It is the largest comic book and pop culture convention in the Midwest area. My first Convention was back in 2011 it was a small local anime convention and ever since then, I’ve been hooked. I enjoy traveling to different types of conventions and meeting people with similar interest.