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Understanding and Managing Worry

Worry is repetitively thinking about future negative events that cause anxiety and apprehension. Helpful worries focus on current problems that can be solved and motivate action, while unhelpful worries involve hypothetical situations that cannot be changed and leave one feeling more anxious. Signs of worry include thoughts, difficulty focusing, and physical sensations.

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Understanding and Managing Worry

Worry is repetitively thinking about future negative events that cause anxiety and apprehension. Helpful worries focus on current problems that can be solved and motivate action, while unhelpful worries involve hypothetical situations that cannot be changed and leave one feeling more anxious. Signs of worry include thoughts, difficulty focusing, and physical sensations.

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What is worry?

Worry is when we repetitively think about future negative events

1 that might happen, making us feel anxious and apprehensive.

Worrying is like being on the lookout for threat, and trying to

mentally prepare for that threat.

Helpful vs Unhelpful worry


Helpful worries:

Are about current, solvable problems

Motivate us to take action to change a situation

Unhelpful worries:

Are about hypothetical ("what if...) situations or unsolvable


problems (things we cannot change or influence)

Don't motivate us to take action

Leave us feeling more anxious and unable to relax

Signs of Worry
List here your common signs of worry (e.g. types of thoughts, wandering

attention, physical sensations):

Monitoring your common worries


Was it a helpful or unhelpful Is there any part of the
What was I worrying about? worry? problem I can solve?
(use worry decision tree)

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