Worry can serve a useful purpose—or create unnecessary stress. Here's how to tell when your worried thoughts are actually hurting you, by DrElizMcMahon
In reality, life has never offered guaranteed safety. Life offers risks and opportunities.Maladaptive worry tells you, “Danger is likely, and you won’t be able to cope!” It overestimates how serious possible dangers are. Even when worries come true, they are often not as bad as the worry predicted.
Unhelpful worry tells you to worry about dangers that do not exist or are so unlikely that worrying makes no sense. I call these “meteor” worries. For example, it isthat a meteor may crash through the roof as I type these words, but I don’t worry about the possibility because it is so veryUnhelpful worry also underestimates your ability to cope. As humans, we are a resilient, coping species. Find reasons to trust yourself. Remember difficulties you have surmounted and challenges you have met.
It always finds something to worry about, shifting from one thing to the next until it finds something that makes youAs discussed in the first blog of the series, your brain’s alarm system can misfire and send false alarms.. Test your worry against the “three A’s of adaptive worry.”
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