Challenging Anxious Thoughts
Fear/Anxious is part of our emotions which helps us to focus on our problems. However, in certain situations anxiety can out grow because of irrational thoughts and cripple our ability to solve the problems.
This worksheet can help you practice to rationalise the irrational thoughts and worries which are hindering you to function effectively.
Describe the situations:
Thoughts that trigger your Anxiety: (Think about the facts that can help you recognise your irrational thoughts)
Write down the
Worst Outcome -
Best Outcome -
Likely Outcome -
In case of the worst outcome, How long would it matter to you.
1 week from now -
1 month from now -
1 year from now -
Anxious thoughts and feelings always focus on the worst outcomes, even when they aren’t likely to happen. For example, a person who recently finished his project and didn’t perform well.
The irrational thought - I messed up the project, so I am useless and worthless person and I will mess up everything”
The rational thought might be - I did the other projects well so this one project doesn’t signify I am useless or worthless. Due to some circumstance I messed it up I can rectify the mistake I made and work on correcting the mistakes.
Using your own “Worst outcome” and “Likely outcome” from above, describe your
Irrational thought:
Rational thought:
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