Reply to 3 signs that it is beginning again

Forum Index » Health and Medicine

Reply to "3 signs that it is beginning again"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are a number of ways that anxiety distorts your thought patterns, with the effect of increasing anxiety and making it harder for you to make decisions, enjoy things you'd normally enjoy, and just generally function. Here are a few:

[b]Catastrophizing[/b] is when someone assumes that the worst will happen. Often, it involves believing that you’re in a worse situation than you really are or exaggerating the difficulties you face.

[b]Jumping to conclusions[/b] can involve both believing that you know what others are thinking (mind reading) and predicting the future (fortune-telling or predictive thinking).

[b]Overgeneralization [/b]means believing that the results of one situation predict the results of all future situations. If your thoughts often involve the words "all," "never," "always," and "every" you might be overgeneralizing.

[b]Mental filtering[/b] means only seeing the negative parts of situations, and filtering out positive or neutral information.

[b]Black and white thinking [/b]means seeing everything in extremes; there is no room for the middle ground and you see everything as all or none. Whatever the issue, there are no shades of gray when you are thinking this way. People are right or wrong and situations are good or bad.

If you recognize your thinking in any of this, especially around Covid, I would highly recommend talking to a medical professional about anxiety. I would also recommend maybe getting a workbook on CBT for anxiety, which will help you recognize when your thinking is being distorted by your anxiety and learn how to make adjustments so that instead of feeding anxiety, you can evaluate situations and make productive choices. Here is one: https://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Behavioral-Workbook-Anxiety-Step/dp/1626250154[/quote]

Cool. Covid numbers are still going up at an alarming rate. Even if the person saying so doesn’t exhibit any of the foregoing signs of anxiety. That’s the thing about numbers - they aren’t susceptible to right wing crazies on the internet calling them chicken little. [/quote]

Posting ominous threads on DCUM about how "it" is happening "again" is absolutely anxious behavior. What is happening? The pandemic? That's not happening again, it's ongoing. There are ups and downs. We are moving into a downturn, which sucks. But "it" is not "happening" "again". That's a cognitive distortion that maximizes the scary things the OP wants to focus on while ignoring all the other context that makes August 2021 very, very different from March 2020. I'm not a Pollyanna but I've been living with an anxiety disorder for 20 years and have learned that you have to train your brain to handle bad news and stress. Giving yourself over to it does not actually help you make difficult decisions or weather challenging times. The opposite.[/quote]

I'm not op but the pp with debilitating anxiety. Can you share any suggestions for how you were able to train your brain to handle bad news and stress? I could use all the help I can get!

Thank you[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics