Posted by Tabitha on August 23, 2011, at 3:48:29
In reply to Negative thought appearing, posted by floatingbridge on August 21, 2011, at 21:48:46
If your thought has emotion and distresses you, by all means talk it out with someone. Perhaps the distress can be relieved.
I've had some very odd thoughts that keep cropping up. They seem to happen when I'm anxious, and they don't have emotion associated with them. They've changed over time. The most frequent one these days is "I'm going to commit suicide". Yet I've been suicidal, and this repetitive, flat thought is not the same thing as feeling suicidal. I don't feel particularly hopeless or distressed when the thought happens. I've just quit worrying about it. It seems like bizarre brain junk to me, not particularly meaningful.
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