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Originally Posted by Sometimes psychotic
I have this to a much milder extent...but say I'm walking in traffic and cross and crosswalk with a green light and some dude turning the corner almost runs me over when they have a red...I can be upset for hours or days even though there was really nothing I could have done differently...This is what I'm talking about with my anger issues lately I was worried about our new post-doc ordering a type of tissue culture flask and how I might have to deal with her if she didn't order it since it impacts everybody in the lab. I got in on Monday and she had actually remembered to order it---so I got all worked up for nothing. Thought loops, rumination etc its much less intense than it was before my psychosis but since I feel that its a trigger for the voices and because it just sucks in general I don't want it back in my life. The combo of cbt and meds got rid of it and I was fine for 4 months off the meds but now its creeping back in. I think its just been a part of my life for so long that my brain is still sort of wired up to think that way and those circuits are no longer being inhibited by the meds but I would like to control them so I'm working on cognitive restructuring and mindfulness mediation right now. I will let you guys know if anything works for this... 
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Yes, it think if worry is a scale of 1 - 10, I hit 10 pretty easily for things just like you describe. I think everyone does this in certain situations, but hitting 10 on a regular basis is not the normal thing. Like normal worry won't hit 10 because you think maybe you picked out the wrong type of pie for a potluck.