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Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Aug 6 8:12am | Replies (335)
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@lisalucier I'm guilty of doing the same thing. I tend to latch onto a thought and spend the next hour or so having it on a continuous spool. I do it with a brief statement and it's really hard to stop it. If I'm driving, the words play and replay and replay, usually in a rhythm, sometimes related to a rhythm the road or the car is making. It's a somewhat mild type of OCD. Art Linkletter said, kids say the darndest things. So does my brain.
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@jimhd one of the things I do to stop such thinking is to magnify the end result to the extreme and then say it out loud. I then realized how much it does not sound like sanity. It makes me realize my thinking is not what it should be.
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If you can train yourself to identify that you are in a loop, it's helpful to say to yourself that this is an error in thinking that you can dismiss. I tell myself that I can set the problem aside until I'm feeling differently, and usually I just move on and don't even come back to it. This doesn't work so well if I'm feeling my depressive self, and when that's the case I try to remember that I will not always feel this way and try to pass through it. Tricks sometimes work, sometimes they do not, but they are devices that I try to use.