My brain loves to turn a molehill into a mountain range. Today, when the spiral starts, I’m asking: "Is this a fact, or is this a fear?" 🛑 #AnxietyRelief #Catastrophizing #BipolarLife
Read today’s Club post: https://open.substack.com/pub/speakingbipolar/p/stop-the-downward-spiral-of-catastrophizing?r=y4fp9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) French novelist, playwright
Letters of Two Brides [Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées], Part 1, letter 45 (1840) [tr. Scott (1897)]
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The fact is, my sweet, every mother spends her time, so soon as her children are out of her sight, in imagining dangers for them. Perhaps it is Armand seizing the razors to play with, or his coat taking fire, or a snake biting him, or he might tumble in…
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1741 ed.)
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Going on 8 years since being struck by a car, I’ve only begun to be able to comfortably sleep on the side of my worse-off leg (replaced hip, femur, knee, and ankle). This is likely due to the cushioning affect of increased muscle mass surrounding the femur, which has always been the most painful area. The left side has always been preferable to sleep on for digestive purposes, so I’m happy to finally be able to again. Shit’s fascinating, though—despite the apparent strengthening and muscle-memory, because of the deadened nerve-perception still present there, I wobble so severely upon first getting up out of bed in the morning, for the inability to sense my leg 'still asleep', that I find myself having to slip immediately into a horse-stance (which itself took me five years to be able to hold myself in again). My left leg now 1/4 in. // 1 cm. shorter than the other, I’ve had to walk with a lift in my left shoe. It’s been heartbreakingly difficult to walk barefoot since the accident, but I’ve started doing so over the last two weeks. Yesterday was the first day I went barefoot all day. I basically have to walk in a duck-and-dodge boxing style. Pushing it towards the positive, I consider now maybe I COULD return to live in Japan, (if my book sells well there), with the ability to remove my shoes as guest to walk on tatami. But the truth is, I started walking barefoot out of preparation for finding myself made shoeless in an internment camp. Kneeling for long periods of time is the next thing I’ll be working on.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 5 “Fatigue” (1930)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/338…
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A quotation from Russell, Bertrand:
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One of the symptoms of approaching nervous break-down is the belief that one’s work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/3384/
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Cut Out #Catastrophizing
Constantly imagining the #worstoutcome increases and maintains #distress.
Key points:
- Catastrophizing is thinking the worst possible outcome will happen #withoutevidence to support this thought.
- Catastrophizing is related to #anxiety, #depression, and #chronichealthconditions such as #chronicpain.
- Catastrophizing leads to distress and anxiety and makes you think a #badoutcome is more likely than it is.
A quotation from Milne, A. A.:
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“Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?”
“Supposing it didn’t,” said Pooh after careful thought.
Piglet was comforted by this.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/milne-a-a/48004/
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