We were talking with a patient recently, let’s call him Brian, who suffers from recurrent anxiety, which disrupts his sleep. He explained the technique that has helped him significantly improve his sleep quality: scheduled worry. Scheduled worry is a simple technique that many of our patients swear by. Instead of allowing worrisome thoughts or issues to float randomly to your …
Anxious and Ruminative Thought Strategies
Work is one of our biggest sources of anxiety and stress. So often a small incident at work can turn into something bigger, resulting in negative supervisor reviews, which results in more anxiety and ruminative thinking about the original incident. “What really happened?” “What should I have done differently?” “What should I have said when I got called on it?” …