REALITY CHECK

Ask yourself these 20 questions whenever you feel upset, behave undesirable or show stress:

1. What am I doing to cause this situation?
2. Are my emotions healthy and appropriate?
3. What am I telling myself?
4. What are the facts?
5. Am I exaggerating or distorting?
6. Are there other explanations?
7. How likely are my worries?
8. Whose problem is this anyway?
9. What is the worst that can happen?
10. Am I awfulizing?
11. Am I taking it too personally? Too seriously?
12. Am I downing myself of others?
13. Am I unrealistically demanding success? Love?
14. Do I need this or only want it?
15. Am I babying myself? Am I sitting in my high-chair banging my spoon?
16. Can I stand it?
17. How can I think more realistically?
18. Am I stewing rather than doing?
19. What are my options?
20. What, if anything, can I do?

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