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Making things up.in my mind

Kenny_1622

Hi

I have a problem were I make up scenarios in my mind of challenging situations involving people that are annoying me, and get emotional wound up about it, it's like I'm believing what I'm making up in my mind and I'm resenting the people involved more and more for thing they havent done but could potentially do. My mind never stops. Is this the anxiety or related to the ASD ?

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  • Hi

    I used to get this a lot, I believe it could be related to my propensity for rehearsal of anticipated situations, for example if I had a job interview then I would rehearse likely questions from the interviewer and what my responses would be.

    I used to do this but in a negative way about likely social interactions with friends and acquaintances, I thought that they might be mean to me or laugh at me if I did or said certain things, or that they were enjoying themselves more without me, if you are going through something similar then you have my sympathies.

    Ultimately after some time I finally realised that I could not predict what other people would say or do, and that whatever interaction I imagined was exactly that, imagined, it was not real and would likely never be, it can be hard to get thoughts like this out of your head, but try not to let it wind you up.

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  • Hi

    I used to get this a lot, I believe it could be related to my propensity for rehearsal of anticipated situations, for example if I had a job interview then I would rehearse likely questions from the interviewer and what my responses would be.

    I used to do this but in a negative way about likely social interactions with friends and acquaintances, I thought that they might be mean to me or laugh at me if I did or said certain things, or that they were enjoying themselves more without me, if you are going through something similar then you have my sympathies.

    Ultimately after some time I finally realised that I could not predict what other people would say or do, and that whatever interaction I imagined was exactly that, imagined, it was not real and would likely never be, it can be hard to get thoughts like this out of your head, but try not to let it wind you up.

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