Worry less.

My worrying has lessened in the past couple of weeks. I think part of it is that summer is finally over, and I’m excited about the fall weather which is kind of making me forget my troubles a bit.

I’ve also been reading this book which has some good ideas that I’ve been using. One thing it says is that when you find yourself imagining something bad happening in the future, stop and imagine all the other outcomes that could possibly happen, and it makes you see that these predictions are not set in stone, and that the future is up in the air. My worries always feel like truths, and I need to constantly remind myself that they’re only guesses (and bad ones at that, since they rarely come true anyway).

I worry about so many little things during the day that it’s hard to think of the last time I wasn’t worrying about something. I just go from one thing to the next all day. I do have OCD (not a bad case, but it’s bad enough to be an annoyance), and the worrying sometimes takes that form as well.

I try to follow some tips I’ve learned over the years, but the only thing that really works for me is to write them down. I find that it helps to list all of your thoughts about each worry (like what you think is going to happen, etc.) and when you see it in writing, sometimes it’s amazing how ridiculous it looks. Of course, this is time consuming, and when the worries seem to be a lot of little things, it’s hard to even keep track of them all, much less write them down.

I ordered this book that was reccommended to me, called Women Who Worry Too Much. Hopefully that will have some new ideas :)