Tackling your worries
Sometimes worrying is nature’s way of telling us we’ve got too much time on our hands. We can spend hours fretting over something without taking that vital first step to actually trying to sort the problem out. If we do this long enough, even the most trivial problem can be blown up to seem like the end of the world.
If you do find that your mind seems to be constantly churning over some problem, there are things you can do to reduce the worrying:
- Keep the worry in proportion.
- Stop worrying about ‘what ifs’. It might never happen
- If you find that you tend to worry at certain times, then you can be prepared and try and think about something else instead.
- Write down you worries, particularly if you can’t quite put your finger on what’s bothering you. Write down all the different feelings and emotions going through your mind.
- Think through all your options for taking action. Then make a list of them and work out for each one the possible positive and negative outcomes. Then choose the best.
- Talk it over with someone you trust like a good mate or perhaps a youth counsellor.
If you don’t feel like talking about it, you could use a chat page on the web e.g. The Site or email The Samaritans
