they won’t tell you this in therapy but sometimes the best way to stop catastrophizing/anxiety is to interrupt your spiraling with “girl what the hell are you talking about”
It’s not a cure but you have no idea how many times this image has helped me with my OCD
This tag has been more effective than any meds I’ve ever taken
see my mind does this automatically… but with vocal stims that activate upon first early-detection warning of a thought I don’t want to think, and can range from nonsense syllables and completely irrelevant nouns to combinations of swearwords no one has ever heard before
it DOES stop me, for example, thinking about an embarrassing memory from age 13. but at the expense of sometimes generating a brand new and even weirder embarrassing memory for future spirals.
