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Letter: Pretty happy with the emotions coverage (1)

Published 4 June 2025

From Pamela Manfield, The Narth, Monmouthshire, UK

I would like to share my method for addressing the emotional states of anxiety and unhappiness. Make a list of what is worrying you in one column. Then think of possible solutions and put these in the second column. Then work on how to achieve these(10 May, p 30).

It is important to physically write this on paper as, if you can’t think of a solution, you cross the worry out firmly and then tell yourself to forget it as there is nothing you can do.

Issue no. 3546 published 7 June 2025

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