II will be helpful when your anxiety causes you Avoid activities you used to enjoy Avoid certain people Frequently cancel plans Call in sick to avoid stressful events like presentations Feel unable to do routine things like drive or go to the Behave uncharacteristically in situations e g you approach or talk to your friends when at a party Section Thoughts Starting here find strategies to help diminish the inaccurate or unhelpful thinking that preoccupies the mind when caught up in anxiety These strategies will help if Chronic worry Repetitive or racing thoughts Catastrophic thinking thoughts g suck at this so I might as well give up Irrational beliefs g I drive back home to check the oven my house will burn down Welcome Everyone feels anxious at some I have worked with anxious clients for the past 15 years in my practice as a clinical psychologist Some come to me believing that their anxious feelings can improve Others enter therapy reluctantly mostly convinced that nothing will ever reduce their panic symptoms avoidance behavior or worried thoughts People who improve typically have two things in 1 A part of them no matter how small believes they can get better 2