Anxiety

For calming down in the moment, body-based tools have evidence: slow breathing raises vagally mediated heart rate variability, and randomized-trial meta-analysis finds small-to-medium significant effects on anxiety. For anxiety that keeps returning, stepped care, from self-help through therapy to medication, is the international standard. What differs by country is everything in between: the space before the clinic door, what each culture put there, and what you can actually walk in and get.