Sour candy is now being used for much more than just giving a kick to your taste buds. You can now use it to kick back against your mental health.
After being a TikTok trend viewed over 2 million times, people are now adding sour candy to their mental health toolbox.
In this video with over 2 million views, a lady shares her own experience with using sour candy to help combat her mental health problems.
Her therapist recommended that she should have a Warhead when she feels a panic attack coming. Talk about an off-prescription use for...CANDY
Other therapists have also recommended this trick to ease anxiety symptoms. Some even keep it in their offices to help clients out during sessions.
This strategy is used as a grounding technique for people. Triggering your senses by having something either sour or spicy can help ease intense feelings of anxiety.
This grounds people experiencing anxiety by trying to ground them within the present moment.
Grounding tactics can stop or interrupt spirals of anxiety. The brain is only adequately equipped to handle one emergency at a particular time.
Distracting the brain can help move the mind from one problem to the problem of the sour candy. As problems go, what candy to choose is a good one!
While Warheads and other sour candies are not solutions to individuals experiencing mental health problems, they can be helpful tools to have on hand.
Other valuable tools include mindfulness strategies to help ground people in the present moment.
Candy is more than just a treat; in this case, it is a tool we can use in our everyday lives to help us out, too.
