I go over the worst case scenario when dealing with fear, knowing that the worst case scenario is highly unlikely to come true.

Undefined dread has no edges, so it expands to fill whatever room it is in. Written down, it has to become a sentence, and sentences end.

There is a version of this exercise that helps and a version that doesn't. The one that helps runs to a conclusion: and then I would do this, and then I would ring her, and then we would manage. The one that doesn't just loops.

Give it paper, give it ten minutes, and give it a stopping point. Most catastrophes look considerably smaller in your own handwriting than they sounded in the dark.