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Negative Feedback Loop

Undiagnosed4321

What do you guys make of a Negative Feedback Loop?

Is this a common thing to get bogged down in Negative thinking, for one thing to happen which sends you down in a negative spiral, where you can't see the positives and just focus on the negatives and it makes you worse and worse?

Or is that another disorder?

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    Undiagnosed4321 said:

    Im almost positive it's not depression.

    Not quite sure why you are so positive about that? Please don't take this as provocative, I'm puzzled but don't want to annoy you. I'm not a doctor either!

    Your problems are relieved when someone talks you through it. That is the recommended "treatment" for someone with depression. You need to be challenged out of the mental stew that you have fallen into. Talking to someone else who can present a more balanced view of the world is the way to "change your mind".

    Depression is often not a chemical thing but it can be caused by external events which we (people with ASC) can be too critical of. I think that the term is dichotomous or black and white thinking and this is a recognised precursor to depressive tendencies.

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    Undiagnosed4321 said:

    Im almost positive it's not depression.

    Not quite sure why you are so positive about that? Please don't take this as provocative, I'm puzzled but don't want to annoy you. I'm not a doctor either!

    Your problems are relieved when someone talks you through it. That is the recommended "treatment" for someone with depression. You need to be challenged out of the mental stew that you have fallen into. Talking to someone else who can present a more balanced view of the world is the way to "change your mind".

    Depression is often not a chemical thing but it can be caused by external events which we (people with ASC) can be too critical of. I think that the term is dichotomous or black and white thinking and this is a recognised precursor to depressive tendencies.

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