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Worry, anxiety, and stress
- Worry. A repetitive form of thinking about the future or the past.
- Anxiety. An uncomfortable feeling of fear, apprehension, or dread, often in the gut or chest, accompanied by physical symptoms such as rapid heartbeat and sweating.
- Stress. A physical response (fight or flight) to a threat, real or imagined. It’s characterised by an adrenaline and cortisol surge, and increased blood levels to your muscles.
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Negative and positive worry
- Good worry: it anticipates and solves problems. It is functional to worry about certain future events instead of burying your head in the sand.
- Bad worry: it is circular and habitual. It doesn’t lead to any solution, and it makes you feel scared, ...
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Worry and imagination
Worry is actually a product of imagination. If we didn’t have an imagination, we wouldn’t worry.
Worry and imagination are built on remembering things from the past and projecting ourselves into the future.
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Learning to worry well
Worry is generally seen as a negative thing. But it could also have a positive function.
Worry is an adaptive function to better solve problems and imagine creative solutions. And worrying well is a skill anyone can learn.
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