Anxiety

It is common to worry sometimes, but if you worry too much it can feel exhausting and may affect your health.

When you worry, you think about problems that might happen in a way that leaves you feeling anxious or nervous.

Worry is a chain of thoughts and images that can progress in ever more catastrophic and unlikely directions. It often feels hard to control and seems to take on a life of its own.

Leading psychologist Tom Borkovec has provided some helpful descriptions of worry:

“Worry is a chain of thoughts and images, negatively affect-laden and relatively uncontrollable; it represents an attempt to engage in mental problem-solving on an issue whose outcome is uncertain but contains the possibility of one or more negative outcomes; consequently, worry relates closely to the fear process.”

“Worriers spend much of their time in a theoretically possible, but as yet non-existent future.”

“The world is potentially dangerous, and I may not be able to cope with whatever comes from the future, so I must anticipate all bad things that might happen so that I can avoid them or prepare for them.”

If you feel you worry to much, at times are anxious to the point if effects your day then call Marc

Contact Marc at Counselling Support to organise an appointment to chat or simply book an appointment online.