Coaching practices for How to Get Over Severe Work Anxiety
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- Even once the worst of it passes, I can’t get back into the room
- I treat every single worry like a problem demanding a solution, so I build elaborate contingency plans for things that haven’t even happened and probably never will, and it leaves me wrung out
- My thoughts are racing in circles and I can’t think my way out of the spiral
- There’s this nameless background fear about losing my job or my income that I never look at directly, so it just hums under everything
- Before I can even start facing my fears head-on, I have to stop them ambushing me at every hour
Practices that may help
- Engage with the present moment
Once the edge comes off, redirect attention fully into an activity or your surroundings.
The DARE Response to Anxiety, Made Practical - Productive Problem-Solving vs. Worry
Distinguish solvable worries — which need a plan — from hypothetical ones — which need acceptance or defusion.
Worry Time: Containing Anxiety With Scheduled Worry - Run the full 5-4-3-2-1 sequence
Work through all five senses in order: 5 things seen, 4 heard, 3 touched, 2 smelled, 1 tasted.
The 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique - Imagine losing your work or income
Briefly contemplate life without your current livelihood, to loosen financial anxiety and restore perspective.
Negative Visualization, the Stoic Practice - Worry stimulus control: confine worry to a designated time
Schedule a 20-minute daily "worry period" and postpone all worry outside it.
Worry Exposure, Made Practical - Contain worry with a scheduled worry period
Assign worry a 20-minute daily window — and redirect it there the rest of the day.
Accepting Uncertainty: The Core Skill in CBT for GAD - Combine worry exposure with relaxation skill
After the exposure period, apply a relaxation practice to close each session with a deactivation phase.
Worry Exposure, Made Practical - Use humor as a therapeutic distance-maker
Practice narrating your anxiety to an imaginary sympathetic audience — make it funny.
Logotherapy: Paradoxical Intention - Practising ataraxia: removing sources of anxiety
Identify and address the sources of background anxiety rather than adding pleasures on top of them.
Epicurean Philosophy: Practical Happiness - Build an avoidance hierarchy and work through it systematically
List all the situations you avoid because of anxiety, from least to most frightening, then work up the list.
Safety Behavior Fading, Made Practical
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Talk to yourself as you would to a friend — accurate and kind, not harsh or falsely cheery.
Balanced, compassionate self-talk
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Once the edge comes off, redirect attention fully into an activity or your surroundings.
Engage with the present moment
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Once the edge comes off, redirect attention fully into an activity or your surroundings.
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Once the edge comes off, redirect attention fully into an activity or your surroundings.
- How Do I Deal With Major Work Anxiety
Distinguish solvable worries — which need a plan — from hypothetical ones — which need acceptance or defusion.
Productive Problem-Solving vs. Worry
- How Do I Deal With Work Anxiety
Distinguish solvable worries — which need a plan — from hypothetical ones — which need acceptance or defusion.
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