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Catastrophising: How toxic thinking leads you down dark paths
bbc.com ^ | 27th July 2022 | David Robson

Posted on 07/27/2022 9:28:54 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

Expecting the very worst to happen in any given situation can harm mental health. How do we stop these toxic-thinking spirals?

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: narcissism; paranoids; sociopathy

1 posted on 07/27/2022 9:28:54 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I learned a new compound word today!
I hope I never have to experience the definition of it.


2 posted on 07/27/2022 9:31:11 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Expecting the very worst to happen in any given situation can harm mental health. How do we stop these toxic-thinking spirals

Kick out the usurper, stick Trump into his rightful office as president...then I would NOT expect the very worst to happen..

3 posted on 07/27/2022 9:32:56 PM PDT by Bobalu (NIO is the bottleneck that prevents Type1 physical immortality from being realized...)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

How do we stop these toxic-thinking spirals?
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Post funny comments.

Send some $$$ to FR


4 posted on 07/27/2022 9:34:12 PM PDT by jcon40 (Machinery is only as good as its design and quality of parts. A citizen is only as good as...)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

“How do we stop these toxic-thinking spirals?”

I read my tagline and tell myself to step forward, no matter how small the step.


5 posted on 07/27/2022 9:36:54 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Expecting the very worst to happen in any given situation can harm mental health.

Explains a lot about the Despair Trolls and Doom-and-Gloomers on any given election thread on FR.

6 posted on 07/27/2022 9:37:10 PM PDT by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

World and this nation going to utter sh*t before our observable eyes but we not supposed to have any type toxic-thinking? Right. Okie dokie.


7 posted on 07/27/2022 9:39:45 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Yes, the doom and hysteria from the media are too much. Conspiracy theories, universal plots and schemes perceived where there are none. It’s healthier to look away from it most of the time.


8 posted on 07/27/2022 9:54:58 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Bookmark


9 posted on 07/27/2022 9:55:49 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: Berlin_Freeper
BBC is run by Commies.

They do not even try to hide it.

So.... follow their advise at your own risk.

10 posted on 07/27/2022 10:04:46 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
How do we stop these toxic-thinking spirals?

Turn off the freaking TV.

11 posted on 07/27/2022 10:12:19 PM PDT by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
The communists want you to be mentally stable?
12 posted on 07/27/2022 10:21:52 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: jcon40

Yep. Gotta laugh and donate to FR.

:-)

13 posted on 07/27/2022 10:37:07 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum (God is good, He loves us, and He is always with us.)
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To: pax_et_bonum

LOL. Thx....


14 posted on 07/27/2022 10:55:47 PM PDT by jcon40 (Machinery is only as good as its design and quality of parts. A citizen is only as good as...)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Expecting the very worst to happen in any given situation can harm mental health. How do we stop these toxic-thinking spirals?

Some of us call it being realistic and we allow it to motivate us to prepare for the worse in stead of living in some liberal utopia fantasyland.

15 posted on 07/28/2022 1:23:42 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Rd later.


16 posted on 07/28/2022 5:53:06 AM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: jcon40
Well... I can relate to Wheelbarrow Man.

;-)

17 posted on 07/28/2022 5:59:37 AM PDT by pax_et_bonum (God is good, He loves us, and He is always with us.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Catastrophising: How toxic thinking leads you down dark paths
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And here I thought it was power hungry catastrophe making and exploiting satanic progressive Marxist perv secular humanidts herding me down the shoot to slavery poverty and early death.


18 posted on 07/28/2022 6:33:04 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Well they are notorious for calling anyone who disagreed with them crazy.

So I would be cautious about accepting their definition of mental stability.

But you will do as you like of course.

19 posted on 07/28/2022 6:53:31 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Expecting the very worst to happen in any given situation can harm mental health. How do we stop these toxic-thinking spirals?

Get rid of the commies who's specialty is causing "the very worst to happen in any given situation"?

20 posted on 07/28/2022 7:30:43 AM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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