Regrets obsession

Yes I have been very successful but now seem obsessed by all the opportunities I missed mainly because I was so focussed on routines and academia and my job. So I realise I doing this I missed out taking my children to professionals football matches and national rugby matches even though we were often in Twickenham staying at my mother in laws house when the World Cup was on etc.

I know I have a lot left , but I’m stuck on all the negatives. I feel I’ve failed my wife and children.

maybe this negative focus is why autistic people have such a high suicide rate.

but I do like the joke therapy!

what do others feel about focussing on the negative and maybe having been too confident that you were doing well before.......

Any actions that have been helpful? I wonder about pursuing my effort to develop an alternative suicide prevention service as the current medical model is inappropriate for many people.

i am impressed with Russell Brand’s insight into the distress of suicide over Caroline Flack whose death was probably caused by the media and the Crown Prosecution Service. I am pleased the debate has been opened but know that the IOPC has historically always supported the cps and has never said anything against either the police force or the cps, even when coroners have raised concerns. We shall see....... but I am sure they will not criticise the authorities. They only criticise individuals that the police want to dismiss and waste loads of public money defending inappropriate police actions 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49955628

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  • Anxiety always makes you question your decisions.   The older you are, the more decisions you've made through your life.    Reprocessing all those decisions over and over burns a lot of energy.

    If you come to the conclusion that you've messed up too many decisions, it will create some very negative thinking that will require even more processing.     It will lead you into dark places when all you do is spend your time kicking yourself all day, every day for things you can't fix.

    The only sensible thing you can do is admit to yourself that you can't fix the past but you have total control of your future.   How you proceed from there is up to you.

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  • Anxiety always makes you question your decisions.   The older you are, the more decisions you've made through your life.    Reprocessing all those decisions over and over burns a lot of energy.

    If you come to the conclusion that you've messed up too many decisions, it will create some very negative thinking that will require even more processing.     It will lead you into dark places when all you do is spend your time kicking yourself all day, every day for things you can't fix.

    The only sensible thing you can do is admit to yourself that you can't fix the past but you have total control of your future.   How you proceed from there is up to you.

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