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Worry Chains

Mimiworld
over 5 years ago

Does anyone get so worried about things in life that they start catastrophising?

I do that all the time recently. I have been so anxious. One thing leads to another and it's like a mind map

with bunting or a ghost with heavy silver chains starts to subsist their right in the back of my mind...

Ugh feeling so low right now.

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  • over 5 years ago

    Yes very much so. If there is a situation that I am remotely anxious about my mind goes into overdrive and comes up with a ridiculous number of scenarios, some of which are very unrealistic worse case scenarios. I believe part of this is to do with people with autism having a difficult to predict events (or at least not wanting to guess/assume what the event will be incase they are wrong). So the brain goes mad and comes up with multiple scenarios without boundaries. Probably not helped my tendancies to be literal etc. Just my theory on it. It isn't nice.

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  • over 5 years ago

    Yes very much so. If there is a situation that I am remotely anxious about my mind goes into overdrive and comes up with a ridiculous number of scenarios, some of which are very unrealistic worse case scenarios. I believe part of this is to do with people with autism having a difficult to predict events (or at least not wanting to guess/assume what the event will be incase they are wrong). So the brain goes mad and comes up with multiple scenarios without boundaries. Probably not helped my tendancies to be literal etc. Just my theory on it. It isn't nice.

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