Stress_Diary_Guide 13. Alternative Questioning

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Stress Diary Journal Guides

Guide 13: Alternative Questions

Stress Diary Journal Your Guide

The 5 Horsemen Questions

What is the appropriate questions to ask? Some key questions to help evaluate and challenge your stress-related thoughts. ASK these of your thoughts!  What was the worst that could happen?  Could you have died or been seriously injured?  Would it help to reinterpret the situation as a challenge or test, rather than a threat?  Can you reinterpret the bodily sensations as a signal that you body is primed and you’re ready for the challenge, that you are excited?  What evidence do you have

that what you fear will happen?  How good is any of this evidence? Is it bullet proof, quite good, weak or extremely weak? Could you defend it in court, if you had to?  If the worst case scenario happens, how would you cope and get through it, without escaping? If you have got through it before then how could draw on this to you get through it next time?

Guide 13: Alternative Questions

1. What ? happen.

 Is there a more likely outcome, chain of events, or scenario? What has happened before when you thought your nightmare scenario was going to happen?

2. Where?

 What would you say to friend or family member who told you that this is what they feared?

4. Who?

 Similarly, what would a friend or family member say to you if they knew that this is what they feared?

 What is the chance that what you fear will happen? Base this on how many times it has happened before and how many times you thought it would

3. When?

5. Why?

6. How?

5 Horsemen Questions 'What, Where, When, Who, Why and How' questions].  'Who is involved? 'What kind of situations causes stress?'  'When is this kind of situation likely to occur?'/'When did it occur last?'

 'Where typically does it occur?'

“Challenge your initial and automatic thoughts with these questions”

 'Why does this not occur in a different situation?'  'How does it occur?'

Apply these to your initial stress thoughts.

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