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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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    Hi again,

    I hadn't picked up that your problem was so focused on an individual or a single thing. Like Trogluddite, it makes more sense as you read more of your responses. The Attwood video is relevant in talking about catastrophising but it also has a warning about not assuming that it will all blow over. I have done exactly what you say in condemning an individual (usually a manager!) as being stupid or bad. I now recognise that part of this is in our inability to read people - we struggle to work out what intentions people have and we jump to conclusions and decide to place them on the wicked pile. The dichotomous thought processes or black vs white thinking is also a trait that we have. Since we tend to avoid sharing our feelings and thoughts with others, we also tend to stew and fester.

    I also think there is a danger that you identify one person as bad and then another and another and before too long you have the whole world against you and you would be prone to talk yourself into a really depressive state.

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  • Former Member
    Former Member

    Hi again,

    I hadn't picked up that your problem was so focused on an individual or a single thing. Like Trogluddite, it makes more sense as you read more of your responses. The Attwood video is relevant in talking about catastrophising but it also has a warning about not assuming that it will all blow over. I have done exactly what you say in condemning an individual (usually a manager!) as being stupid or bad. I now recognise that part of this is in our inability to read people - we struggle to work out what intentions people have and we jump to conclusions and decide to place them on the wicked pile. The dichotomous thought processes or black vs white thinking is also a trait that we have. Since we tend to avoid sharing our feelings and thoughts with others, we also tend to stew and fester.

    I also think there is a danger that you identify one person as bad and then another and another and before too long you have the whole world against you and you would be prone to talk yourself into a really depressive state.

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