Mental Solutions You Can Use
• Telling yourself a story. It could involve you as the main character, in your threatening situation, and how you end up solving the problem, and everything ends well.
• Sum up your worry in one mental sentence, making it seem simple and unimportant to you.
• This tip is from a book I read: “ You can mentally talk to your worry as if it is a monster, and you can tell it nicely, or sternly, to go away”.
• For a long term tip, can (and I read this in a book too) “choose five minutes from every day to worry. Not near bedtime, not at school/work. No worrying at other times in the day.
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I have experienced (and still do) a lot of severe anxiety, and I know how important it is to have good ways of coping.
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