bighenry
03-11-05, 12:13
Hi all.
I was wondering if anyone else gets this, or am I flying solo?
I've developed a nasty (nasty, nasty) habit of worrying about things I've forgotten. Given the amount of stress hormones swamping my system, it's pretty usual for me to forget stuff. Post forgetting something, the thoughts go thus:
"I'm feeling upset -- why?"
"What was I just thinking about?"
"Dammit, I can't remember."
"What if it was something important? What if it was something I should worry about, like how I'd figured out some way anxiety can hurt me?"
"Gotta think hard to work out what it was ... "
(etc, etc)
Then I end up spending hours desperately trying to work out what I was thinking, invariably without success, inevitably making myself very anxious.
I guess the thing I'm worried about, having spent months and months and months researching every angle of anxiety, is that I've worked out some theory of how anxiety can hurt me which no-one else has. Then promptly forgotten it. Pretty irrational, I know, but it seems to be where I've ended up.
Does anyone else think something similar? If so, any tips on how to stop? Is it a question of practising saying to yourself "you can't know everything -- you have to trust the doctors that they know what they're doing."
Guess there's no magic bullet for this kind of thinking, but just wondered if anyone had any thoughts?
Many thanks,
Henry
I was wondering if anyone else gets this, or am I flying solo?
I've developed a nasty (nasty, nasty) habit of worrying about things I've forgotten. Given the amount of stress hormones swamping my system, it's pretty usual for me to forget stuff. Post forgetting something, the thoughts go thus:
"I'm feeling upset -- why?"
"What was I just thinking about?"
"Dammit, I can't remember."
"What if it was something important? What if it was something I should worry about, like how I'd figured out some way anxiety can hurt me?"
"Gotta think hard to work out what it was ... "
(etc, etc)
Then I end up spending hours desperately trying to work out what I was thinking, invariably without success, inevitably making myself very anxious.
I guess the thing I'm worried about, having spent months and months and months researching every angle of anxiety, is that I've worked out some theory of how anxiety can hurt me which no-one else has. Then promptly forgotten it. Pretty irrational, I know, but it seems to be where I've ended up.
Does anyone else think something similar? If so, any tips on how to stop? Is it a question of practising saying to yourself "you can't know everything -- you have to trust the doctors that they know what they're doing."
Guess there's no magic bullet for this kind of thinking, but just wondered if anyone had any thoughts?
Many thanks,
Henry