Carrie Anderson

“I helped my client become aware of how he was "maximizing" all the negatives in his mind and "minimizing" all the positive.”
― David A. Carbonell, The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You Into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It

“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.”
― David A. Carbonell, The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You Into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It

“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.”
― David A. Carbonell, The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You Into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It

“When you struggle against your worries, you generally get more worry rather than less.”
― David A. Carbonell, The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You Into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It