Negative thinking and depression

Sable · Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 12:52 am Post subject:

I CAN'T stop my negative thinking patterns. I am trying so hard, but there is nothing I can do. I analyse everything I do without even meaning to. Everything stupid that I do or say (even if it's not really that stupid, only stupid in my head) gets picked out, and comes back into my head all the time. They are almost like flashbacks now, so vivid, as though they happened only yesterday (though in truth some of these things happened years ago).

I know that it's stupid. No one on earth cares, or even remembers that any of these things happened. I know that to them I don't even exist, but I re-live these things over and over again. They make me hurt myself just to take my mind of them. Telling myself to 'forget about it and move on' just does not work. I'm at my wit's end.

savage_beagle · Intermediate User Joined: Apr 08, 2006 Posts: 188

Always remember that you need to love and respect yourself as much as any other person on our earth. That means that you don't think negative thoughts of yourself or talk about yourself in a put down kind of way. EXAMPLE= ''yeah, you shoulda seen me, i parked the car near the theater and when i returned..i discovered i locked my car keys in them!! I am such a freaking idiot...cant believe how stupid i can be. OH well, you know what a jerkoff i can be most days, eh''. What we think, we believe. So why not do the opposite---write down positive affirmations and read them to yourself many times a day. Here is one...''i believe in myself''..or...''i make eye contact and smile with everyone i meet''...''i am intelligent and courageous''. If you keep reading affirmations like this to yourself many times a day, over and over, your mind will accept this as the truth. Take a positive thought, turn it into positive words, turn the words into positive action...and believe in yourself. I was very very negative with myself and others before but i constantly try to improve myself by replacing negativity with positivity, and each day i see improvements....you will too, if you persist and visualize yourself reaching your goal ( A HEALTHY MIND).