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    Anxiety Common Unhelpful Helpful

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    This document provides a tool to help identify common anxious and helpful thoughts. It includes a list of example anxious thoughts and helpful thoughts. It instructs the user to check the boxes next to thoughts they experience to discuss with their counselor. For anxious thoughts experienced often, it recommends completing a triangle diagram to understand how the thoughts lead to feelings and behaviors. Working with a counselor, the user identifies reasons for the anxious thought and generates alternative helpful thoughts. The tool is intended to increase awareness of anxious thinking and promote more helpful perspectives.

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    Anxiety Common Unhelpful Helpful

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    This document provides a tool to help identify common anxious and helpful thoughts. It includes a list of example anxious thoughts and helpful thoughts. It instructs the user to check the boxes next to thoughts they experience to discuss with their counselor. For anxious thoughts experienced often, it recommends completing a triangle diagram to understand how the thoughts lead to feelings and behaviors. Working with a counselor, the user identifies reasons for the anxious thought and generates alternative helpful thoughts. The tool is intended to increase awareness of anxious thinking and promote more helpful perspectives.

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    This document provides a tool to help identify common anxious and helpful thoughts. It includes a list of example anxious thoughts and helpful thoughts. It instructs the user to check the boxes next to thoughts they experience to discuss with their counselor. For anxious thoughts experienced often, it recommends completing a triangle diagram to understand how the thoughts lead to feelings and behaviors. Working with a counselor, the user identifies reasons for the anxious thought and generates alternative helpful thoughts. The tool is intended to increase awareness of anxious thinking and promote more helpful perspectives.

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    Anxiety Common Unhelpful Helpful

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    This document provides a tool to help identify common anxious and helpful thoughts. It includes a list of example anxious thoughts and helpful thoughts. It instructs the user to check the boxes next to thoughts they experience to discuss with their counselor. For anxious thoughts experienced often, it recommends completing a triangle diagram to understand how the thoughts lead to feelings and behaviors. Working with a counselor, the user identifies reasons for the anxious thought and generates alternative helpful thoughts. The tool is intended to increase awareness of anxious thinking and promote more helpful perspectives.

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    The tool provides a list of common anxious and helpful thoughts that one can experience and identifies strategies for challenging unhelpful anxious thoughts.

    Common anxious thoughts listed include worries about safety, making mistakes, failure, and health. The tool notes that most of the time nothing really bad happens.

    Helpful/brave thoughts include recognizing that even if something bad did happen one can probably handle it, having courage to do things that matter, accepting that everyone makes mistakes, and knowing problems can usually be solved.

    Anxiety Common Unhelpful and Helpful Thoughts Tool

    Feeling nervous, anxious or frightened has a lot to do with how we think. Please check the box next to the
    Anxious and Helpful/Brave thoughts you sometimes have, to talk about with your counselor.

    Common Anxious Thoughts Common Helpful/Brave Thoughts


     I am not safe
     Most of the time, nothing really bad happens
     Something bad could happen
     Even if something bad happened, I could
     I have to prevent bad things from happening
    probably handle it
     Other kids are going to make fun of me
     I am pretty brave
     I am going to make a mistake and it will be
     I don’t let fear stop me from doing things that
    terrible
    matter to me
     I can’t handle __________________________________
     Everyone makes mistakes sometimes, it’s part
     I worry a lot about ____________________________
    of being human
     When I have a test or a game or a challenge,
     You don’t have to be perfect (in fact, people
    I think I am going to fail
    prefer to be friends with NICE people, not
     I think something is going wrong with my
    “perfect” people)
    body or my health
     I can usually solve problems when they come
     If I don’t do things perfectly, it will be
    up
    terrible
     It’s OK to feel scared sometimes
     I have to watch out for danger all the time
     Other helpful thoughts you have:
     Other frightening thoughts you have:

    For anxious thoughts that you have a lot, try filling out an Unhelpful Thought – Feelings – Actions
    triangle to see how the thought might be affecting you. Then, with your counselor, identify the reasons
    why you think that and then try to come up with more helpful thoughts to have instead. Pay attention to
    the thoughts you have that are helpful and see how you can make them more common.

    Anxiety Common Unhelpful And Helpful Thoughts Tool CBT+ 20161


    Thoughts:
    _______________________________
    Triggering Situation _______________________________
    ___________________________________
    ___________________________________

    Feelings connected to the


    thought
    Feeling words:
    _____________________________
    Sensations in my body:
    ________________________
    Behaviors connected to ____________________________
    the thought
    ______________________
    ______________________

    Rate: 1—2—3—4—5—6—7—8—9—10

    Reasons You Think This:

    Anxiety Common Unhelpful And Helpful Thoughts Tool CBT+ 20162


    Thoughts:
    Triggering Situation _______________________________
    ___________________________________ _______________________________
    ___________________________________

    Feelings connected to the


    thought
    Feeling words:
    Behaviors connected to _________________________
    the thought Sensations in my body:
    ______________________ ________________________
    ______________________ ____________________________

    Rate: 1—2—3—4—5—6—7—8—9—10

    What you tell yourself if the old thought comes


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    Anxiety Common Unhelpful And Helpful Thoughts Tool CBT+ 20163

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