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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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  • One thing that I find helps me when I get stuck in loop is to express what I'm feeling some other way - for example writing it down, making a picture of it etc.

    I find that this helps for a couple of reasons.  Firstly, the process of writing seems to slow down my thought processes - my mind can't leap so quickly from one interpretation of events to another.  Secondly, once I have my feelings down in writing, it gives me a sense that somehow I have "completed" my rumination - although what I have written might be very negative, it is at least concrete and in no further need of revision.

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  • One thing that I find helps me when I get stuck in loop is to express what I'm feeling some other way - for example writing it down, making a picture of it etc.

    I find that this helps for a couple of reasons.  Firstly, the process of writing seems to slow down my thought processes - my mind can't leap so quickly from one interpretation of events to another.  Secondly, once I have my feelings down in writing, it gives me a sense that somehow I have "completed" my rumination - although what I have written might be very negative, it is at least concrete and in no further need of revision.

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