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Left unchecked, worries can eat up large parts of the day—and get in the way of enjoying life.

Scheduling time to worry may feel counterintuitive, but this is a simple yet effective tool for coping.

To get started, set aside 15-20 minutes at the same time daily, and write out all your worries from the day.

This coping skill helps organize, contain, and make sense of unhelpful thoughts and worries.

Your alarm goes off, but you have been awake for an hour already, fretting about the day—worrying about work meetings, climate change, and school pickup logistics.

As the day goes on, you find yourself in a constant state of anticipating, planning, dreading, and spiraling out about possible worst-case scenarios. You feel exhausted just by keeping up with your own thoughts.

Worry is a key symptom of generalized anxiety disorder, but you do not need to meet full criteria for this diagnosis to know how debilitating worry can be.

Thankfully, there are tools that can help. For example, worry time, outlined below, is a cognitive behavioral therapy intervention that involves setting aside a fixed amount of time daily to physically write out worries. Worry time has been shown to........

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