Turning Everything Into A Catastrophe

I don't often get bouts of anxiety but when I do they often hit me pretty hard.

I usually fall for the idea of turning everything into a catastrophe.

Unfortunately, I have a very toxic family member in my brother. And I think he was the trigger for this recent spell of stress.

I had three phone calls in one day from him and that was just too much for me to deal with from him.

On top of this, I had to deal with some banking issues. And a new visa for the country I live in. And then I thought the website for my business had been hacked.

The only really difficult thing to deal with was my narcissistic brother. He tried to call again and I decided that he was not worth the stress. So I ignored him for a week.

The banking was nothing to worry about. Luckily, I have another family member who used to work in a bank and she told me what to do.

It was actually nothing to worry about at all.

The visa is nothing to worry about.

And I called my hosting company and they fixed everything on the site within a couple of hours.

But I realise that all it takes is one trigger and then our minds make us believe that everything is falling apart.

Usually the things we worry about turn out to be nothing.

The famous quote by Mark Twain always comes to mind:

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

And this is very true.

I've worried about the most bizarre things but my mind manages to convince me that it is definitely going to happen.

But it doesn't.

I am reading a book about CBT. And I have just read the part that talks about how we make ourselves believe all these huge catastrophes that will definitely happen.

But they don't.

It's literally all in our heads.

The one thing that I definitely need to do is have a healthy distance between myself and my brother.

Then life is very good.

Stay well everyone.