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Prescribed or scheduled worry is an exercise that we have used with good results with many patients over the years. In its simplest form, scheduled anxiety or worry means that you set aside a block of time each day or each week to sit down and really face the things you are worrying about. People who try this on a …
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 …
