The president "will be less popular if -- in the service of overspending and wasting people's money -- he closes the government down, as opposed to now, when he's just wasting people's money". If Republicans take Norquist's advice, it could soon become a relevant worry.
In a recent study by Stokes and Hirsch (2010) high-worriers were trained to engage in either verbal or imagery-based mentation about a personally relevant worry topic.
Exploring the effect of generating imagery about a personally-relevant worry topic on mood, compared to verbally worrying, was a secondary aim of the study.
Should we worry about privacy issues – or is privacy even a relevant concern for Digital Natives?
A final limitation is that, although this study assessed a wide range of anxiety symptoms, there were no symptom measures relevant to worry (GAD), obsessions/compulsions (OCD), or trauma symptoms (PTSD).
(1995) investigated the differential impact of imagery and verbal processing on subsequent intrusions following a distressing video, but the question remains whether imagery about a personally-relevant current worry topic would lead to less subsequent negative intrusions than worry in verbal form.
But outside London and a few other cities, the idea of this vast, ongoing war between pedestrians and cyclists is about as relevant as traffic worries from horsedrawn carts.
This suggests that negative intrusions may be specifically linked to biased attentional engagement with threat; although, as discussed earlier, we suppose that disengagement processes may also be relevant to stopping worry once it has begun.
If you were to make a tag cloud of recurring worries on relevant forums, themes like 'homesickness', 'language' and 'Skype connection' would loom large.
"I think that the amount of THC in the bloodstream is a relevant factor; I just worry that it's misleading," he said.
