It is not necessarily bad to worry. Worrying makes us feel the need to grow up, either physically or mentally, so that we can ready ourselves for the upcoming challenges.
However, it is also true that excessive worrying has the potential to impose serious damage on the mental health.
In order to deal with the habit of excessive worrying, it is of paramount importance that we first have a good understanding of what the pathophysiology is.
Fortunately, it is quite simple: excessive worrying arises as a result of the misuse of imagination.
One of the best cognitive gifts given to human beings is the capacity to differentiate between what is real and what is imaginary. The appropriate use of this capacity requires the expenditure of cognitive energy.
When the brain becomes physically or mentally damaged by external circumstances, the brain loses its original level of cognitive energy and thus loses control of its capacity to know what is real and what is imaginary. This eventually leads to the misuse of imagination.
In order to appropriately deal with excessive worrying, we must first recognize that all the problems arise from a single simple reason: the misuse of imagination. Therefore, in order to truly escape from the habit of excessive worrying, we must counter the original dysfunctional imagination with new therapeutic imagination.