Anxiety Files

Simple and powerful techniques for coping with anxiety and worry.

by Robert L. Leahy

Third Week: Challenging Your Worried Thinking

By Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D. on October 13, 2008 in Anxiety Files

During the first two weeks of your Worry-Cure Program you learned how to examine the differences between productive and unproductive worry and you learned some techniques to deal with acceptance of uncertainty and limitations. In this third installment, we will look at some simple techniques to handle your negative thoughts. Read More

It's all in how you phrase the questions

Submitted by Peter Knight on October 13, 2008 - 5:24pm.

Sometimes you can perform a jiu jitsu move on your worrying when you find that right question to pose. These are a great set of questions, some similar to my own process for eliminating worry.

One of the best worry dissolving techniques is a practical one I read in Dale Carnegies 'how to stop worrying and start living": the stop-loss order for worry. That technique alone dissolved a bunch of my bigger worries.

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Submitted by diary of a shy black woman on January 25, 2009 - 8:30pm.

I am trying so hard to overcome my anxiety...I will try these steps. I'm glad Psychology Today is around!

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Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D., is the author of Anxiety Free,The Worry Cure and Beat the Blues. He is Clinical Professor of Psychology at Weill-Cornell Medical School and Director of the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy.

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