We all worry from time to time. In fact, worrying can be a positive thing - making us aware of a threat in our environment and therefore helping us to react to that threat.
For many of us though, worrying can easily become chronic and excessive, and can result in serious mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression. If you worry about a lot of things in your life, things that haven't happened, things that have, things that might, then your worrying can have a huge impact on your relationships, family, career, your wellbeing and your health.
The trouble is, worrying is a habit. Our brains like to take the easiest path, and so if you're in the habit of worrying they can consistently send us down that same route of worry over and over again, each time reinforcing the habit, without you even noticing it's happening. It's the path of least resistance.
But we can break that habit, by encouraging our brains to go down a different, more positive, more productive route. And each time we make ourselves go down that route, the new pathway in your brain becomes clearer and easier.
That's why one of the techniques that patients learn during Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is to catch worries in the act, challenge them (what is the evidence for that line of thinking?) and change them to a more positive thought. "Anna is ignoring me because she's cross with me!" becomes "what evidence do I have that Anna is cross with me?" and then "maybe she's just not seen me, or maybe she's got her own things going on today".
Some people like to set aside designated worry time in their day, and that might well work for some, but problem solving your worry there and then can be really effective in managing your worries, teaching your brain some new tricks and bringing down your anxiety levels. And where some worries, often the big catastrophic ones, can't be resolved there and then, distracting yourself with music, mindfulness or even just looking for blue things, can train your brain to think differently in future.
WorryTree helps you do that by creating a space where you can record and challenge your worries there and then or giving helpful suggestions for distracting your thoughts. Later on, if you want to, you can go back and look at what has been worrying you - also helping you to realise that 99% of the time worries come to nothing.