Worrying thoughts drive the vicious circle of anxiety. With every worrying thought, anxiety rises a little more. Challenging such thoughts enables you to jump out of the vicious circle and stop anxiety rising.
As we’ve seen, worrying thoughts can be challenged with three questions:
What is the evidence for what I thought?
What is the effect of thinking the way I do?
What alternatives are there to what I thought?
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Before challenging your own worries with these three questions, practise working through the following examples.
Challenge each worry by writing a more helpful response in the space provided. (Use a separate sheet of paper if you need more space.)
After you have written your answers, compare them with these possible responses.
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