find new hobbies that force you to think about that as you’re doing it & not your bad thoughts. baking helps me a lot

I wish I could bake, it's just things I used to do aren't as interesting or maybe I'm being too lazy with things so my thoughts start to spiral out of control.

Anything that will help your brain focus on what you’re doing in the moment will help, it’s hard when you start to spiral because you feel out of control. Sometimes I just have to put music on that I know because I focus on the song

I used to enjoy listening to music to distract myself and focusing on that but I usually end up crying, I feel broken

You’re not broken!! You’re just mentally spicy!

I love that lol

Another really nice thing for me that helps me with intrusive thoughts is memorizing things. Things like songs or poems or even mathematical formulas. It’s helpful to find something that you want to learn more about and then choose a chunk of info to memorize. I feel like it utilizes a different part of my brain and so distracts from unwanted thoughts.

a lot of people are giving distraction methods which can be a great way to temporarily feel better but to really combat the thoughts it can help to argue against them… if your mind is saying “they must not like me bc they didn’t text me back all day” ask yourself, “ did they tell me they don’t like me? is it possible they are just busy?” and just try to bring reason into your thoughts

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Most of my depression and anxiety increases when I’m having my period. I get severe PMS. I also loose it when my blood sugar is low.

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Overthinking doesn’t always have to be a bad thing, just see your mistakes and struggles and take something out of it. Make a realization. Learning from your mistakes by overthinking can actually help you in the long run because you can try and visualize the way you are seen to others and what you can do differently

Learn a new language 😊🙌🏽 map out your next long-term goal maybe? Got a bucket list 😁

Audio stimulation. Play music play shows or videos in the background of doing something that can distract you. Like painting or some artsy thing with Audio in the background