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I constantly have to acknowledge that I'm mentally torturing myself, and force myself to stop. Idk why my mind seems to enjoy that activity so much.
The first step to stopping catastrophising is realising you're doing it in real time, so well done
Prepares you for the real thing...
I feel like this is the biggest reason. I used to daydream about getting cancer and dying young and shit, it used to terrify me as a younger man who never wanted to die.
Now at 30 years old, the only thing that scares me is the possibility of reincarnation and having to do this again lol, our brains condition us to get over our fears if we let them.
It's like watching TV, but in your head
A lil pregame
The fuckin' Reddit TikTok bots just exacerbate that shit too
just become happy, rich, secure and successful and it stops
ez
It doesn't stop.
interestingly enough the happiness of the 15% least happy people really doesn't increase with more money beyond $100k, while all other groups happiness rises with more money.
That's not the conversation though. Intrusive thoughts don't stop just because you become rich, or successful, or "happy". They continue to be something you have to actively overcome.
so you think you can never get better? because I personally know that's not true.
to be clear my first comment was a joke.
In reality, you don't need to be any of these things to get rid of intrusive thoughts. Or fatalism and catastrophism. (winky face)
People do this?
Hmm... goes to show how incredibly different inner lives people can have.
I don't recognize this at all and it sounds like a very strange thing to me.
It's normal life to a lot of us. Poor mental health is a pandemic of its own.