Weekly Prompt #4: What thoughts or beliefs feel especially troublesome?
Hello everyone and I hope you are all having a bit easier week. How are you all feeling?
Last week, we discussed When was the last time you experienced an extremely high or low mood? If you didn't share your thoughts yet, please do by clicking this link!
Today's prompt is focused on Thoughts and Beliefs. The brain processes millions of thoughts and beliefs. They can be conscious, subconscious, or through various avenues. But some of them used to trouble us more than others and that's what we will be focusing on in this week's discussion.
Given that, this week's prompt is: What thoughts or beliefs feel especially troublesome? How do they make you feel?
@ASilentObserver
Thoughts and feelings that are the most troublesome for me are...
Thoughts/feelings of inadequacy, disparagement, and self-loathing.
Thoughts/feelings that come with a deep depression.
These are difficult to tolerate. They reoccur with depression.
@amiableSalamander17 I am sorry to hear that amiable. I understand how difficult it can be. What contributes to these thoughts reoccurring?
@ASilentObserver
Thank you and my mental health. Mental illness and psychological trauma over time.
@ASilentObserver
I constantly overthink things. Along with bipolar, I'm also OCD so it's hard to shut down my brain. There have been some incidents I would like not to think about but they keep replaying in my head. I also kind of tend to predict the future, which shows me in a very bad light.
@ASilentObserver
I think my thoughts about men hurt me. Like I don't try to leave the house as a result. I feel really energetic right now. Like I know that I feel like people are hurting me, so I know I want to wear pink. I don't let myself wear pink. I won't let myself feel that way, if that makes sense. I'm reminded of what, like, a listener said about a pool. about like meeting others to make friends. Yeah, overall I just feel addicted or unseen amongst these people, that it takes active effort to see these kinds of people, if I so choose or desire to do so..
@SunLionheart It feels like you have some thoughts about men that are making you feel stuck inside the house and preventing you from expressing yourself through fashion. Wearing pink gives you energy, but allowing yourself to do so feels challenging. What thoughts come up for you when you think about wearing pink?
@ASilentObserver Thoughts? I don’t know for sure, but I sure do get scared ,, I know I think of Barbie or Legally Blonde if someone wears all pink. It doesn’t necessarily make me feel confident, however it does give me a sense of nostalgia and whim. Like there’s a danger to associate with it even more .
My original personality was a Silent Observer. Due to people closely watching my behavior, I have become a dysfunctional mess. I'm a targeted individual.
@InventiveLife It sounds like you have been experiencing some changes in yourself due to feeling watched by others. How has being a Silent Observer turned into a "dysfunctional mess"?
Like you I also experience the same way you do. I'm a silent observer and I hear people out of our house not too loud saying things like I'm a mess, I have bad behavior, I am crazy and things like that. And the days are near, may parents will go to USA soon and my twin and I will be left here in the Philippines and I need to land a job as soon as possible. But I keep on failing on interviews. I am confident that I will pass the process outside of our house specifically working as call center agent again. But I am not comfortable, I don't know socializing because I feel like there is wrong about me.
What I meant interviews is online interviews applying as a Virtual Assistant even I have 3 years of experience.
But I kept on failing.
