I have an unfortunate history with many such devices, which is that whatever I'm doing, be it breathing exercises or mental exercises or whatever, simply gets subsumed into whatever the anxiety is, so that after a while, when I try breathing exercises, I start freaking out about things I haven't worried about in years. My brain, let me show you it. I don't even.

It is sometimes helpful to simply meet the anxiety where it lives, in a highly histrionic and over-simplified environment like a soap opera, and suggest solutions in that framework. They won't stand the light of day, but they don't have to.

P.