Evidence against anxiety
September 27, 2026How to Deal With Health Anxiety: Test the Fear Instead of Googling the Symptom
Why checking, symptom searching and reassurance keep health anxiety going, and five CBT-based steps that break the loop.
September 27, 2026Anxiety Journal Prompts: 30 Prompts That Actually Calm Your Mind
Prompts for the moment worry hits, for turning a fear into a testable prediction, and for an evening and weekly review.
August 31, 202615 Behavioral Experiment Examples for Anxiety and Worry
Concrete experiments you can run this week: for social anxiety, catastrophizing, perfectionism, safety behaviors and beliefs about worry itself. Each with a belief, a testable prediction and a check-back moment.
August 31, 2026The Worry Time Technique: How Scheduling Your Worry Actually Works
Postpone every worry to one fixed 15-minute daily slot. Why postponing succeeds where suppressing fails, the step-by-step method, and the mistakes that make people quit.
August 31, 2026How to Stop "What If" Thinking (Without Arguing With Your Brain)
What-if thoughts feel like questions but behave like alarms, which is why answering them never ends the spiral. Three evidence-based ways to break the chain.
August 22, 2026Catastrophizing: Why Your Brain Always Imagines the Worst (and How to Prove It Wrong)
Catastrophizing is not a character flaw, it is a prediction error your brain makes on purpose. Why minds jump to worst-case scenarios, and the evidence-based way to retrain yours.
August 22, 2026Behavioral Experiments: The CBT Technique That Beats Arguing With Your Thoughts
You cannot reason a smoke detector into silence. What behavioral experiments are, why they outperform thought-challenging, and how to run one on your own worry today.
August 22, 2026Does Worrying Actually Prevent Bad Things?
Worry feels like preparation, and the feeling is a statistical illusion. What the psychology says, and the two-week ledger that shows what your worry really buys you.