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Date: August 14, 2013 05:07PM
http://www.amazon.com/Learned-Optimism-Change-Your-Mind/dp/1400078393/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376513553&sr=8-1&keywords=optimismThat book has helped me in the past. Constantly cycling through anxious scenarios reinforces the anxiety and paralyzes a person.
Distracting yourself from the constant worrying is a must. The worrying is useless and creates harm. It helped me to personify the boogyman in my head constantly trying to scare me and literally at times laughing it off.
Fear likes nothing better than to be taken seriously. That's how it takes root and grows. A sense of humor can break the mental tension, and the literal insanity of anxious thoughts. Distraction is also a good technique. Note the times of when you're not anxious and what you were doing at those times. If it involved focusing on something, use that as a means to distract yourself.
If you have nothing that distracts you like that, find something. Anxiety creates reinforcing patterns of thought and the only way to break away is by deliberately breaking those thought patterns.