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Schedule Your Worry Time

Your brain is NOT Google Chrome.

Your brain is juggling 87 open tabs, three traumas, four fake scenarios, and a PhD in overthinking.


Yet, none of these are helping.


At this point, you are NOT thinking; you’re spiralling.


If you can’t stop worrying, SCHEDULE it.


Yup.


Schedule your worry!


I like to use a technique called WORRY TIME for my patients who deal with overthinking, anxiety, and stress.


This is a 15–20–minute daily window during which you can sit down and let your brain panic on purpose.


During this worrying time, you unleash all those nerve-wracking thoughts.


However, outside of that time, you question your intrusive thoughts.


Let your thoughts know that your session for worrying is at 7:30 p.m., not when you’re at work.


Whenever your brain tries to stress you during the day, drag it back and inform it that the anxiety office is closed until 7:30 pm.


Because ruminating and worrying all day doesn’t solve anything; it just fries your nervous system like plantain.


You’re not being productive; you’re just mentally pacing in circles.


And the amusing aspect of this worry time that I’ve noticed with my patients is that when the actual worry time arrives, they realise that they were worrying for nothing because that fear has vanished.


So, try this therapeutic technique if you want to address your anxiety.



You are allowed to feel.


You are not allowed to drown.


So, schedule your worry.


Name it.


Frame it.


Contain it.


Because your mind is not a 24-hour news channel.


If you don’t manage your thoughts, they will manage you.


Poorly.


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