Worry Containment Worksheet

A client with ADHD works as a data analyst and has identified that worry interrupts their focused work sessions. A thought about an unresolved problem - a conversation they need to have, a bill they have not paid, an email they have not sent - surfaces during focused work, they feel the pull to address it immediately, and the work session ends. They have tried ignoring the worry but find it intensifies. They have tried addressing it immediately but then the task they were working on cannot be resumed.

Frame this as a scheduled acknowledgment system, not a suppression system: 'You are not putting the worry away. You are ...