Do you want to find something meaningful, fun, or personal for someone you know that has a hard time with an anxiety disorder or that gets gets stressed easily? The following gift ideas for people with anxiety are interesting and different than the norm. As someone who has experienced anxiety on a high level for most of my life, I wanted to put together the ultimate list of things that I would like to receive myself, when I’m feeling highly anxious or stressed. Most of these gift ideas for people with anxiety are found on Amazon and at great prices too!
So, Christmas, birthdays or any other occasion, these items make great gifts!
1. Encalife Galaxy Star Projectors
If you’re after something truly unique for a friend with anxiety, why not take a look at the Encalife Galaxy Star Projectors? These things are really something special and offer a way to instantly change your environment into something more calming and relaxing, not to mention mesmerising.
The Encalife projector uses up to 16.7 million colours to splash your ceilings and walls with vibrant galaxy shades that are dotted with stars. Not only would this make a great gift idea for someone with anxiety and stress but it would also be a cool gift idea for your kids.
The Encalife projector is a smart projector which means you can control the different lights and colours by using an accompanying app on your phone. You can also set timers for it to activate and integrate it with your Alexa if you’d rather use your voice.
Check out the Encalife Galaxy Projectors here.
2. The Rustic Good News Mindfulness Jar
This Jar is something very unique. The ‘Good News mindfulness Jar’ is packed with a month’s worth of heart warning feel good news stories. The angle of the jar is to pick you up. With so many bad and negative news stories (the stuff that gets all the air time), it’s easy for us to constantly feel like we need to live in fear and go into ourselves.
This jar mindfully gives us one positive news story everyday for 30 days. This gift idea for someone with anxiety makes a great present because there’s not too much else like it. It could also help you get out of a rut of negativity when you’re pulling out a good news story each day.
This jar would work magic if you stopped watching the news for a month and just read each and every story from the jar instead.
3. The Mindfulness Jar
Mindfulness Gift: Rustic jar full of daily mindful tasks and challenges.
Here’s another jar… I don’t know what it is about these rustic mindfulness jars but I just love the way they look! This jar is similar to the jar we mentioned above but it’s main function is to teach you mindful practises over 31 days.
The idea is to use each mindfulness practise one day at a time so that you can build up the habit of mindfulness in a no pressure way that will help you to develop this way of thinking and behaving. This jar is a great idea because not only does it look great but it uses the idea that forming new habits takes about 30 days.
The mindfulness exercises are folded up with unique designs that open your mind up to a new ways of thinking everyday for a month. If you want to give a loved one the gift of learning mindfulness in an easy to manage way, this jar is perfect. Did I mention it also looks awesome?!
4. Stress Less Cards
Another neat thing I found is the stress less cards. These cards are already recommended by health care professionals for people who deal with anxiety and stress on an everyday basis. They look great and they also work well.
There are 50 cards in this pack. Each card has a different exercise to follow containing mindfulness, meditations and stress relieving techniques.
I like these cards because you can carry them with you anywhere. When you’re feeling stressed or anxious you can shuffle your deck and pull out a card to follow the exercise.
A simple idea yet an effective one.
5. Smiles In A Jar
Smiles in a jar is exactly that. Smiles. This jar is is packed full of brightly colouring cards which have moving, motivational, humorous, and loving messages on them. This gift idea is great for those who are anxious or stressed because it provides a little pick me up.
This jar is also a cool idea if you’re struggling to find a cost effective but meaningful gift for someone’s birthday or secret Santa present.
It’s a great gift idea for dad, mum, brother, sister or a grandparent.
Although it’s not marketed at the anxious or stressed, you can’t help but feel calmer when you have a loving message to open every day of the month.
6. I Am Here Now
I Am Here Now: A creative mindfulness guide and journal
I Am Here Now is a super unique idea. It’s basically a book of mindfulness exercises that’s useful for beginners but mindfulness veterans would also find it useful. What makes it so different from anything else on the market is it’s creative approach.
Instead of just learning about Mindfulness, the guide book gets you stuck in with proactive activities. Like all good mindfulness guides, the book is designed to open your mind creatively, bring awareness to your senses and understanding to your thoughts and emotions with it’s thought provoking words.
It’s created by mindfulness teacher Tara Brach. The guide gets you to do lots of activities to start thinking mindfully like drawing around your hand, and placing both hands on the book to connect with the rhythm of your pulse.
The interesting and unique illustrations of emotions and situations in your life make this a very special present. You can also use the journal pages in between activities to jot down you thoughts.
With some very positive reviews on Amazon, this one’s probably my personal favourite on the list of gift ideas for people with anxiety.
7. How To Stop Worrying And Start Living
How To Stop Worrying And Start Living (Personal Development)
Another book that makes a great gift for someone with anxiety is Dale Carnegie’s How To Stop Worrying And Start Living. It’s probably the most talked about book when it comes to the subject; how to stop worrying. And for good reason – Dale’s book is straightforward and easy to read. It provides practical techniques that you can use to break the habit of worrying, before it breaks you.
The book is a full of real life examples about people, some famous, some not, who have learnt how to handle worrying and fear. The stories inside the book flow into each other beautifully and are highly relatable. The book covers all aspects of what the modern person worries about, money, relationships, work, etc and provides actionable exercises to stop worrying. If there is an ultimate book on learning how to stop worrying, it’s this one, which makes it a highly useful gift if the recipient is experiencing anxiety.
8. The Worry Plaque
The Irish Fairy Door Company Interactive Worry Plaque
The next item on the list is something very unique and interesting. This is the worry plaque, which can be mounted on your wall. This gift for someone with anxiety is just a bit of fun, but it’s sure to bring a smile to someone’s face. The idea is to place your hand in the print. By doing so, the green light turns red, which means you have successfully passed your worry into the ‘worry fairies’. Everytime you’re feeling very worried about something, place your hand in the print and imagine your worry being passed into the plaque, freeing you from it.
If you want to give something truly unique as a gift, this is the one for you! There is also access to video content where you can stream positive affirmation on the companies website.
9. Weighted Blankets
There’s something incredibly relaxing about weighted blankets. They make great gift for guys with anxiety or girls experiencing anxiety. Until I tried one myself, I thought they sounded a bit suffocating, however I was completely wrong. Instead, there is something calming about having the lightly weighted blanket over you. It feels as if you are being cradled in your bed, being put into a deeply calm state. This is slightly more expensive than the other gift ideas for people with anxiety, but it’s a great investment and a highly practical gift idea that someone can use daily.
10. Eye pillows
See the product on Amazon here.
Now you can also buy pillows for your eyes! Do you love eye massages? Although a little bit strange, rubbing your eyes gently can be extremely relaxing and can also be a really good way to drift off to sleep when done properly. The eye pillows found on Amazon do a similar job so you won’t need your partner to massage your eyeballs at night! These eye pillows are made of silk material and packed out with flak seeds. You can think of them like ‘posh bean bags for your eyes’. The eye pillow is placed on top of your eyes which gently applies pressure to them. This can help with stress, insomnia and migraines. The cool thing is, you can stick the eye pillow in your microwave to heat it up or put it in your freezer to coll it down so what ever mood you’re in you can use it for different situations.
11. Dammit Doll
View the product on Amazon here.
This next gift idea for someone with anxiety and stress is a silly bit of fun. The Dammit Doll is a novelty doll that can be stretched, pulled and smashed on the floor, perfect for taking out your anger on! Think of Stretch Arm Strong but for all ages. The Dammit Dolls come in a variety of funky colours too so you can pick one out that’s tailored perfectly for the person you want to gift this item to.
Sean C is a writer, passionate about improving one’s self by maintaining healthy habits and doing the things that make life more meaningful.