Anyway, sometimes my brain creates really sad scenarios, and I play out my reactions to these scenarios, and it makes me really upset, but it's like I'm trying to prepare myself for every possibility even though it's both impossible and destructive.
@RickiTarr I occasionally manage high-risk projects, and my tendency towards catastrophising is helpful since we can then prepare for the risks. It helps avoid that behavior in my daily life by developing a. awareness of when I’m doing it
so I can try to stop doing it.
@dr_a@RickiTarr much of my career involved catastophising.. The ability to forsee potential challenges and avoid them or develop plans to deal with them when they hit. I was good at it.
Always looking for the problems or what might go wrong engages the flight or fight response. Okay in short doses, but really hard to turn off and separate from everyday life, when it has been engaged constantly. This is PTSD territory.
Take care.
@Tattie It's more like what if everyone I loved died or one of us was in a horrible accident or lost some fundamental ability, and then my brain takes me through the whole scenario
@RickiTarr I do that as well. I've learned something though that helps with that and other anxieties that I create for myself.
I've learned if it's not a problem right now, don't make it a problem. In other words learn to live in the moment, not in an anxiety spiral of what might be.
@RickiTarr
I know it well too. But I’m much older than you and I have learned pretty well how to divert those negative thoughts. The problem is they arrive back in my unconsciousness, as dreams. That I can’t control.
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