{"id":897629,"date":"2026-10-28T14:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T14:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897629\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T14:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T14:56:08","slug":"how-to-stop-a-what-if-anxiety-spiral-before-it-takes-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897629\/","title":{"rendered":"How to stop a \u201cwhat if\u201d anxiety spiral before it takes over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"HGDACY2O5ZHPNC2BOZNDFQJPKQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">You may know the spiral well: It starts off as a single worry, such as how tonight\u2019s date will go, whether you made a mistake at work or what an abnormal medical test result means. Then it takes on a life of its own. What if they don\u2019t like me? and What if this result means something serious? become What if I never find someone? and What if I\u2019m dying? Potential outcomes spin off into terrible futures, and next thing you know, you\u2019re fielding some flavor of What if everything turns out terribly and nothing is ever okay?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You may know the spiral well: It starts off as a single worry, such as how tonight\u2019s date&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-897629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}