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Anonymous wrote: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:

Catastrophizing 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.

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

Overgeneralization 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.

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

Black and white thinking 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

Jeff needs to make this a sticky.

Truly. Thank you to the PP who wrote this.

This is funny. I can see Jeff writing our internet addresses on a wall. (Funny….not funny).

Hey guys, thanks for raising the bar on the quality of your gaslighting and pandemic minimizing.

Hey guys, thanks for raising the bar on the quality of your gaslighting and pandemic minimizing.

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Anonymous wrote: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:

Catastrophizing 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.

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

Overgeneralization 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.

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

Black and white thinking 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

Jeff needs to make this a sticky.

Truly. Thank you to the PP who wrote this.

This is funny. I can see Jeff writing our internet addresses on a wall. (Funny….not funny).

Anonymous wrote:1) I had to wait 5 hours to get Instacart slot.

2) DS could not get an urgent care appointment before 8:50 today. We are just going to pediatrician tomorrow.

3) Nursing home would not accept hand-delivered care package for my relative.

Anonymous wrote:Went to an upcountry ER-it was like a scene out of Contagion. Left immediately. Went to downcountry ER-it was empty and we were in and out in less than 3 hours. Hospital I left had a 9 hour wait. SO what does this mean? More Covid uptown than downtown?

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Anonymous wrote: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:

Catastrophizing 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.

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

Overgeneralization 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.

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

Black and white thinking 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

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.

When you resort to calling reasonable people who disagree with you “right wing crazies” the problem might be with you, not everyone else. This isn’t April 2020.

Whoaaa there cowboy…..it’s worse than April 2020. New variants, vaccine loosing its effectiveness, Covid fatigue, schools closing. I’m a huge fan of CBT. The reality is you have to PLAN for the worst and hope for the best. CBT is great….once you have all your ducks in a row. Meditation and mindfulness is where it’s at.

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Anonymous wrote: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:

Catastrophizing 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.

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

Overgeneralization 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.

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

Black and white thinking 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

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.

When you resort to calling reasonable people who disagree with you “right wing crazies” the problem might be with you, not everyone else. This isn’t April 2020.

Whoaaa there cowboy…..it’s worse than April 2020. New variants, vaccine loosing its effectiveness, Covid fatigue, schools closing. I’m a huge fan of CBT. The reality is you have to PLAN for the worst and hope for the best. CBT is great….once you have all your ducks in a row. Meditation and mindfulness is where it’s at.

It's nowhere near as bad as April 2020. The majority of deaths occurred pre-vaccine. Even now, the vast majority of deaths are unvaccinated. An infection that you need a box of Kleenex for, or one that knocks you around for a couple of weeks, is not a big deal when you hugely mitigate that death factor. In addition, schools moved to a virtual-first mode in April 2020. Now, they lead with in-person and will temporarily close if/as necessary. Further, reports are starting to come out that Delta is peaking and/or near peaking. There isn't a big new variant on the tail of Delta right now. Plus, all of these current Delta infections will provide additional resistance (i.e., not "immunity" for those that want to jump this) going forward.

And then there’s FL.

Anonymous wrote:1) I had to wait 5 hours to get Instacart slot. - I've experienced this with other delivery services, like getting dinner delivered. I think it's more bc people are traveling and need the convenience of food delivery, or because people get sick of shopping and cooking by the end of the summer.

2) DS could not get an urgent care appointment before 8:50 today. We are just going to pediatrician tomorrow. - there are tons of other viruses going around daycares and such right now, and parents are needing to get their kids in for last-minute pre-school year checkups

3) Nursing home would not accept hand-delivered care package for my relative. - maybe this could be covid related but I don't know

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Anonymous wrote: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:

Catastrophizing 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.

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

Overgeneralization 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.

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

Black and white thinking 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

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.

When you resort to calling reasonable people who disagree with you “right wing crazies” the problem might be with you, not everyone else. This isn’t April 2020.

Whoaaa there cowboy…..it’s worse than April 2020. New variants, vaccine loosing its effectiveness, Covid fatigue, schools closing. I’m a huge fan of CBT. The reality is you have to PLAN for the worst and hope for the best. CBT is great….once you have all your ducks in a row. Meditation and mindfulness is where it’s at.

It's nowhere near as bad as April 2020. The majority of deaths occurred pre-vaccine. Even now, the vast majority of deaths are unvaccinated. An infection that you need a box of Kleenex for, or one that knocks you around for a couple of weeks, is not a big deal when you hugely mitigate that death factor. In addition, schools moved to a virtual-first mode in April 2020. Now, they lead with in-person and will temporarily close if/as necessary. Further, reports are starting to come out that Delta is peaking and/or near peaking. There isn't a big new variant on the tail of Delta right now. Plus, all of these current Delta infections will provide additional resistance (i.e., not "immunity" for those that want to jump this) going forward.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing is “happening again”. Fear based posts like this do nothing but contribute to the anxiety people may already be feeling. Just stop.

If "it's happening" means more lockdowns and control, I can agree with that, but I also know it has nothing to do with the real numbers out there.

If I wanted to control people, I could easily manipulate testing to reflect it to say what I want it to.

Actually you could not. That would take a level of government corruption and collusion among disinterested actors that defies logic.

And yet? Here we are. Seen Australia lately?

That comment has nothing to do with my comment. My comment said the PP could not easily manipulate testing to create some weird fake crisis. Are you saying that’s happening in Australia? If so you are clueless.

You honestly don’t think that the numbers are being manipulated? And yes, it’s pretty easy to manipulate testing - consider how easy it’s been to manipulate treatment using social media, licensing boards, pharmacies, etc.

Anonymous wrote:Nothing is “happening again”. Fear based posts like this do nothing but contribute to the anxiety people may already be feeling. Just stop. [/quote
The main thing "happening again" is an uptick in the posters who like to run around diagnosing others with "anxiety" because they didn't like their post, and recommending nonsensical remedies like workbooks.