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Constant sense of dread

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I'm living with this underlying sense of dread all the time as if something terrible is about to happen. I'm always worrying about something bad happening to my loved ones in particular, and whenever I say goodbye to one of them I have an awful feeling as though it might be the last time I see them. I'm just always waiting for disaster to strike and it's having a really negative effect on my life. I guess it's my brain realising how unpredictable the world is and being unable to accept it. I was just wondering if anyone else here deals with this and if anyone has found a way to ease the stress.

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  • I'm with Drew22 on this one.  You are describing "Catastrophising" in my opinion and it is commonly associated with autistic folk and amongst other contextual groupings of people - such as alcoholics.

    I have just checked and found 237 references to this topic in the search bar.  So if you are looking for methodologies to control or moderate your own experience of it, take a trawl through the archive.  (Please note, it is interchangeably spelt with either an S or Z so do your searching under both spellings.)

    Personally, I was delighted some months back when someone introduced me to a couple of approaches to managing my own catastrophising.  I find that "overloading" my brain with MORE consonant beliefs is an effective way of diminishing the dissonant thoughts that can lead to catastrophising.  However, I need to do this whilst also allowing myself to consciously acknowledge the catastrophising thoughts - accepting them - but then purposefully putting them down so I don't need to revisit them again.

    This might all sound like mumbo jumbo to you......but I hope it will give you somewhere to look and keep hopeful about your own situation and thinking.

    Best regards

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  • I'm with Drew22 on this one.  You are describing "Catastrophising" in my opinion and it is commonly associated with autistic folk and amongst other contextual groupings of people - such as alcoholics.

    I have just checked and found 237 references to this topic in the search bar.  So if you are looking for methodologies to control or moderate your own experience of it, take a trawl through the archive.  (Please note, it is interchangeably spelt with either an S or Z so do your searching under both spellings.)

    Personally, I was delighted some months back when someone introduced me to a couple of approaches to managing my own catastrophising.  I find that "overloading" my brain with MORE consonant beliefs is an effective way of diminishing the dissonant thoughts that can lead to catastrophising.  However, I need to do this whilst also allowing myself to consciously acknowledge the catastrophising thoughts - accepting them - but then purposefully putting them down so I don't need to revisit them again.

    This might all sound like mumbo jumbo to you......but I hope it will give you somewhere to look and keep hopeful about your own situation and thinking.

    Best regards

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