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How do worries get bigger or stay?
If you had a little plant in a pot and watered it every day and put it in
the sun it would grow bigger and bigger. It would grow bigger and
bigger because you’d be giving it lots of attention. You’d be giving it
the things it needs to get bigger.
Worries are a bit like that!
The more you think about a worry and imagine worrying things or
scary things to do with the worry then the bigger it gets.
It also gets stronger and starts to take up more of your time. When
you remember it the next time it will seem like a bigger deal and
might feel worse.
An added problem with worries is that they tell you lies. They
exaggerate and make things out to be the worse they could be. They
make up loads of stuff to get you worried about what might happen.
Remembering that they do this will help you handle worries.
