Why We Worry All the Time and How to Cope

Many of us have had such difficult starts in life, we are unable to find the serenity and security we need to approach every new day with a reasonable degree of confidence. A short film to boost our sense that things can and will be OK.

FURTHER READING

“It’s not an illustrious category to belong to of course, but there are plenty of us at least. We worry about work, money, being left, illness, disappointing, over-promising, madness and disgrace, just to start the list. We worry in the early hours, we worry on holiday, we worry at parties and we worry all the time while we’re trying to smile and seem normal to good people who depend on us. It can feel pretty unbearable, at moments.…”

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Produced in collaboration with:

Natalia Ramos

Direction & Illustration- Natalia Ramos

Animation- Jesus Daniel G.

Animation- Alexa Ledesma

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Thank you for watching, remember to subscribe and turn on notifications and YouTube will notify you when we next upload. Is worry something you struggle with too? What have you found most helpful? Let us know in the comments below.

[DecodeChannel]

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality

[teodorvassilev]

This reminded me of Mark Twain's quote "I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened." So very well put.

[konrad]

"My life has been full of terrible misfortunes. Most of which never occurred." - Montaigne

[mathiaslaurence]

So childhood is primary at all time. That's why I think some people should be licensed to have kids.

[NeoJiNeTiK]

“Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

[Kanjas]

I am extremely insecure. I have fear in starting anything. The good thing is, as bad as it might seem, I take action towards improving myself every day. Making note of the little good things we do and the little advances we make is more important than dwelling on the bad things.

[yourenough]

I waste so much of my life worrying. Thanks for the content.

[poldog]

Is anyone else *scared* to be optimistic/not fear the worst?

[Reema_mfl]

🌼 _"we can rebuild our lives in a new way elsewhere"_ 🌼

[XvrS]

Such brilliant minds we have.. yet so fragile

[dnyboy]

Came across this video cause I can't sleep from worrying ohhhh the irony....

[teawai]

i was literally panicking about my thesis and this actually helped me calm down abit

[DL-rlbd]

I heard a good term, recently, which sums up my existence. “Analysis paralysis”. It helped me to realize that worry, and anxiety, are an exhausting, but fruitless, way to live. However, my lines are blurred between worry and anxiety.

[Fdim]

I brought this video up with my therapist yesterday and it was such a fruitful session. Once I realized that some of my deep-seared worries have childhood antecedents, it became clearer that some of the things I fear are all in my head. Powerful material

[AshwinKrishnaraj]

This video has impeccable timing. My mother was just complaining to me about a lot of irrational fear. It's night time and she is working herself up instead of winding down.

[robertanimrod]

TSoL! You are just in time, as always!!!

[VictorYamaykin]

"The catastrophe that we fear will happen, has already happened... Mourning for our past self" the next step is to learn the things that we didn't learn from our parents and other adults which other people already learned.... this is awesome. Thanks

[MultiRubyta]

I thought it was only me who worry all the time. This is enlightening! Thank you 💜💜💜

[HugDealer]

Fantastic video. I wrote down parts of it and I am hanging the sheet on the wall of my bedroom as a daily reminder. Alain is seriously one of the wisest people alive