28 Quotes by David A. Carbonell

Your recognition that your worries are exaggerated or unrealistic doesn't help you if you continue to avoid what you fear anyway. If you avoid the object of your worries, you will become more afraid of them. What you do counts for much more than what you think.

I helped my client become aware of how he was "maximizing" all the negatives in his mind and "minimizing" all the positive.

If you find yourself arguing with yourself, there’s one thing you can count on – you’re not going to win this argument.

The trick is this: you experience doubt, and treat it like danger.

Thoughts are ideas. Feelings are emotions, and they’re quite different from thoughts. Thoughts can be true or false, or somewhere in between. Feelings are emotional responses that don’t involve true or false.

I helped my client become aware of how he was “maximizing” all the negatives in his mind and “minimizing” all the positive.

You’ll have thoughts that tell you something bad could possibly happen sometime in the future. And that’s true. Its always true, whether you have thoughts about it or not. Anything is possible, bad things sometimes do happen, and nobody knows the future.

It may surprise you to hear that what you worry about, the specific content of your worrisome thoughts, isn’t usually all that important. What’s most important is how you relate to your worrisome thoughts, whatever their content may be.

This is a real problem when you yourself recognize that your worry is based on an “irrational” fear. “I know it doesn’t make any sense,” people say. “That’s what really bothers me about these thoughts.