Not having a good day

[firecat]

When I get stressed in certain ways then I start getting a zillion messages per minute running through my head, all of which have the words "YOU SHOULD" in them.

If this happens to you too, how do you turn it off?


(There's no emergency. I just want to fix a bunch of things that I am not in a position to fix, although I might be able to influence them.)

Comments

[elynne.livejournal.com]

I firmly distract myself. Or list out the things that I'm suppose to "should" and then figure out if I want to do any of them, and if so, do that - and tell the rest of them to stfu.

[firecat]

I have the list, and I have the habit of distraction. This time a lot of the shoulds were long term things that all depend on each other and I doubt my ability to do them and I definitely can't predict whether or to what extent I can do them.

I eventually successfully used the distraction technique. ;)