SIMPLE STEPS TO MAKE PROGRESS - useful for any problem, worry, anxiety, or situation
Just follow the simple steps in this "Decision Tree" diagram...
Useful for any problem, worry, anxiety, or situation...
https://www.uh.edu/caps/resources/covid-19/_images/decision-tree.jpg
Everyone should learn the diagram in the link above...
and then always use it to make progress and feel better.
For more information, look here...
@7motivation
Thanks for sharing this...
The only thing I would have to say or add regarding "whoever" contstructed this diagram, is that someone might find it to be an issue or problem where the diagram first asks "If this is a problem you could do something about".... and then if the answer is "No"... then it automatically refers one to "Let the problem go and focus on something else".
Sadly, there are many who are unable to do that.... which is what often brings them to places like this, here at 7cups (or other places).... Looking for help, or answers etc... Personally I feel that if the diagram tells someone To just "refocus their energy on something else" and then the person is unable to do that, then they might feel even more "helpless and hopeless" even??
Perhaps the person who constructed this, could have found a better or happier medium in between that step? You know?
@PoliteOcean
I agree. They should have put a big note at the bottom
"GET HELP IF NEEDED".
So I wondered... "Why did they leave 'get help' out?"...
So I dug deeper and found the source of the "Worry Decision Tree" picture.
It was made by psychologytools.com...
BUT they didn't invent it. They merely adapted it...
from the original in this book...
Managing Your Mind
The Mental Fitness Guide
By Gillian Butler, Tony Hope, R. A. Hope · 1995
page 181 Figure 16.1.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/Q54wMrh7-hQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=worry%20decision%20tree
A likely reason the diagram left out these "get help" questions and steps...
"Can you get help?"
"If yes, can you get it now?" "Get help now"
"If no, plan to get help later."
is probably because...
it's always an option in life,
also the book already talks about "getting help" in other places.
Though like you implied... people often forget that...
"get help" as a "thing they can do".
AND... more importantly...
Some people have a strong tendency to resist getting help...
so they may never even think of getting help.
So I will add a reply that says what my bio page resources say...
"GET HELP IF NEEDED".
and also...
ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Whenever you're feeling 
[ stuck ],
always reach out - and keep reaching out -
until you find the 
right person to talk to.
It's the 
essential first step.
Otherwise one might be... stuck because not reaching out for help.
Please forgive any typos above.
IMPORTANT NOTE ON USING THE DIAGRAM ABOVE
The diagram left out these "get help" questions and steps...
"Can you get help?"
"If yes, can you get help now?" then... "Get help now."
"If no, then plan to get help later."
That might all seem obvious but...
We all forget to get help sometimes...
and...
Some people have a strong tendency to resist getting help...
so they may never even think of getting help.
SO ALWAYS REMEMBER:
"GET HELP IF NEEDED"
and also...
Whenever you're feeling [ stuck ],
always reach out - and keep reaching out -
until you find the right person to talk to.
It's the essential first step.
Otherwise one might be... stuck because not reaching out for help.
@7motivation
Thank you very much for digging deeper and clarifying a more helpful approach and response!