Anxious? Don’t be. Take Lexapro.

Let’s look at the difference in amount of detail you can remember from day to day. Go back to the activity monitoring chart in the last exercise. You have completed the chart for everything that you did yesterday. Perhaps you learned that it is harder to remember details than you would think. Now think back over the previous three or four hours. What have you been doing during this time? Try to recall as many details as you can about what you did, where you did it, and with whom. Write this down next to the corresponding hour in the column marked “Today.” When you have completed this exercise, think about whether it was easier for you to recall details from yesterday or from the previous three or four hours. Which information do you believe is more accurate? You might notice that it was easier to note activities in greater detail when you only thought about the previous few hours than when you tried to remember what happened on a previous day. The point is that it is good to recognize behavior as it occurs or soon thereafter. Although it may be unrealistic to carry an activity chart with you wherever you go, the sooner you can make a few notes on your chart, the better.