Stress Management: Drip Theory | @caroline-cavanagh | Anxiety Specialist

So all of this stress compounds all of the time. So to say, oh, you know, take stress away, is unrealistic. And that's a really important principle of my work is be realistic. A lot of people say to the children, oh, let's get rid of mobile phones. It's not going to happen. It's about using mobile phones and social media in a different way. Living in a stressful world, it's like a dripping tap. I'm not a plumber, The tap is gonna keep dripping. And if you have a plug in a sink, that water builds and builds and builds until one more drip and you have a flooded kitchen. And for most of us, you know, whether it's at work, parents, it's not that one time that the child said, oh, but mum, it's the 30,000 times they said it before. And that one more went, you go, that's the flood. So where I help people is that whilst you can't stop the tap dripping, what you can do is take the plug out.