#4 Manifestations of Intolerance of Uncertainty - Overcoming Worry & Anxiety | Dr. Rami Nader

If intolerance of uncertainty is the "fuel" that drives the excessive worry, how can you become more tolerant to uncertainty in the world. Increasing tolerance for uncertainty is a key skill in worry management and overcoming Generalized Anxiety Disorder. However, before you can become more tolerant for uncertainty, you need to know the ways in which intolerance of uncertainty manifests itself in your behavior and the various things you do. There are a lot of things that people do that are intolerant of uncertainty, with most people not being aware that these behaviors are actually promoting and exacerbating worry. Once you become better at recognizing the various manifestations of intolerance of uncertainty that are playing a role in your worry and anxiety, you can then begin to take steps to behave in ways that are more tolerant of uncertainty.

The manifestations of intolerance of uncertainty are:
1) Avoiding doing certain things.
2) Finding imaginary obstacles or reasons not to do certain things.
3) Procrastinating.
4) Always having to do everything yourself and not delegating tasks to anyone else.
5) Not fully committing yourself to a relationship, job or project.
6) Spreading yourself too thin and doing too many things at once.
7) Looking for a lot of information before proceeding to do something.
8) Second guessing yourself after you have made a decision because you are not longer certain it's the right decision.
9) Reassurance seeking.
10) Always trying to explain things rationally or creating a false sense of certainty by being overly and unrealistically optimistic.
11) Double checking things or redoing them because you are not certain you did them right in the first place.
12) Overprotecting others, doing things for them.

For more information about excessive worry and Generalized Anxiety Disorder, see my long form video: https://tinyurl.com/y4yqthap

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Videos in the worry management series:
Overcoming Worry 1: Defining Worry: 3 features of worry and 2 types of worry - https://tinyurl.com/y2ox4z9n
Overcoming Worry 2: Understanding a model of worry and worry awareness training - https://tinyurl.com/y5awco8l
Overcoming Worry & Anxiety 3: The Role of Intolerance of Uncertainty in Worry - https://tinyurl.com/y6ohak2y
Overcoming Worry & Anxiety 4: Manifestations of Intolerance of Uncertainty -    • #4 Manifestations of Intolerance of U...  
Overcoming Worry & Anxiety 5: Two Ways to Build Tolerance for Uncertainty -    • #5 Two Ways to Build Tolerance for Un...  
Overcoming Worry & Anxiety 6: Five Myths about Worry -    • #6 Five Myths about Worry - Overcomin...  
Overcoming Worry & Anxiety 7: Challenging Worry Myths -    • #7 Challenging Worry Myths - Overcomi...  
Overcoming Worry & Anxiety 8: What do you do when you hate dealing with problems? -    • #8 What do you do when you hate deali...  
Overcoming Worry & Anxiety 9: Problem-Solving Skills to Defeat Worry -    • #9 Problem-Solving Skills to Defeat W...  
Overcoming Worry & Anxiety 10: Why we worry about things that haven’t happened -    • #10 Why we worry about things that ha...  
Overcoming Worry & Anxiety 11: The most surprising tool to help you worry less -    • #11 The most surprising tool to help ...  
Overcoming Worry & Anxiety 12 - A Worry Management Recipe -    • #12 A Worry Management Guide – Puttin...  
Overcoming Worry & Anxiety 13 - Dealing with Complex Worries -    • #13 What are Complex Worries & How Yo...  
Overcoming Worry & Anxiety 14 - Maintaining Progress and Preventing Worry Relapse -    • #14 How You Can PREVENT Worry Relapse...  

For more information about Dr. Rami Nader, visit: https://tinyurl.com/y3eu5dfw
For more information about Dr. Michel Dugas' work on Generalized Anxiety Disorder and an excellent workbook, visit: https://tinyurl.com/yxf78mnt

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