Lately I have been very anxious and have sudden and frequent worries that nag at me, like I might have an accident with my car (I'm sitting on my lazyboy at the time), my disability money will stop, my rent will go up and I won't be able to pay it... and on. My psychologist gave me a way of dealing with it that helps a lot of people. Visualize a container with a lid. Put the worry in the container and put the lid on. Say to yourself, it is in the jar and I can take it out if I want to later.

I have trouble controlling my thoughts and some trouble controlling my actions (spending when hypomanic) but I am working on it.