Are You a Worry Wart?
Are you a worry wart? I am, definitely. I'm not proud of it, but I have to say, I seem to worry less as the years go by. Maybe aging helps us to more easily accept whatever comes along. Maybe I have more trouble remembering what it is I was worrying about the day before. ha!
Worrying can cause us a great deal of stress, anxiety and eventually depression. It can wreck our relationships, interfere with our family activities and play havoc with our own mental health as well as our physical health. Still.....many of us are worry warts. I wonder if women are more prone to worrying than men. I wonder what kind of reward we are getting from spending our energy worrying. I wonder if I'm worrying too much about this!!!
I came across a helpful and interesting article about worrying and thought I would share it with you. It discusses managing our worrying with Action and Distraction. Sounds like a pretty good idea to me. It's been my experience that when I am busy, I am less prone to worrying. When I'm idle or resting is the time my mind starts in again, often relentlessly. I'll never forget something my therapist told me years ago. "when you're having these worrisome thoughts, change the channel, just as if it were a television set". This advice has saved me many times from unnecessary stress. Give it a try and see if it works for you.
Worrying can cause us a great deal of stress, anxiety and eventually depression. It can wreck our relationships, interfere with our family activities and play havoc with our own mental health as well as our physical health. Still.....many of us are worry warts. I wonder if women are more prone to worrying than men. I wonder what kind of reward we are getting from spending our energy worrying. I wonder if I'm worrying too much about this!!!
I came across a helpful and interesting article about worrying and thought I would share it with you. It discusses managing our worrying with Action and Distraction. Sounds like a pretty good idea to me. It's been my experience that when I am busy, I am less prone to worrying. When I'm idle or resting is the time my mind starts in again, often relentlessly. I'll never forget something my therapist told me years ago. "when you're having these worrisome thoughts, change the channel, just as if it were a television set". This advice has saved me many times from unnecessary stress. Give it a try and see if it works for you.
Posted by ozzieblackcat at 3/28/2009 5:16 PM 
Categories: stress, family, depression, anxiety, relationships, mental health, worry wart
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Categories: stress, family, depression, anxiety, relationships, mental health, worry wart
Tags: ozzieblackcat depression blog mental health His and Hers
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