Anxiety often acts like a rude visitor, showing up uninvited and staying long after you’ve asked it to leave. Whatever form it takes—grinding worry, a choking sense of panic, dread about social situations, or anything else—unrelenting anxiety can be exhausting.

Some techniques can be effective at lowering anxiety: facing your fears through exposure therapy, relaxing all the major muscles in your body one by one, practicing meditation and other forms of mindfulness, and others. But while these techniques are often helpful, they don’t help everyone; even when they work, they may be only partly successful.

What can you do when anxiety just won’t go away? These five strategies can help.

Anxiety often chases you into your head and disconnects you from your physical........

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