Anxiety Relief from Fear Mongering: A Quickstart Guide

Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Qualified Clinical Supervisor. She received her PhD in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Florida in 2002. In addition to being a practicing clinician, she has provided training to counselors, social workers, nurses and case managers internationally since 2006 through AllCEUs.com Live discussion with Dr. Dawn Elise Snipes on coping with anxiety and depression and other physical and mental illnesses with an integrative behavioral health approach . A Quickstart guide to stop letting fear mongers control your health and happiness. What, Why and How’s of fear mongering
Enhancing cognitive distortions to increase fear (and attention)
Catastrophizing– Proclaiming the worst-case scenario
Mind reading- Assuming you know what someone else was thinking (and that it was nefarious)
Availability heuristic (most recent events)– Focusing on the most recent issue out of context
Personalization/Blaming

Filtering out the good
Overgeneralization
Emotional reasoning– I am afraid therefore it must be dangerous

Polarized or all or none thinking
Assuming /Jumping to conclusions (without all the facts)

Find the facts FOR and AGAINST what they are saying. Do your research from MULTIPLE sources including personal contacts
Accept your reaction nonjudgmentally
Recognize the aspects of the situation you can change
Evaluate the PACER benefits to staying stressed out over things you cannot change
Do distress tolerance activities (TABS)
Thought Stopping, Activities, Breathing, Sensations
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