[Chaddiwicker]

So one of my struggles is constant "negative" thinking. I put negative in quotes because I sometimes think it's realistic thinking, but that's probably warped thinking, too.

Anyway, one of the benefits I get from visiting this site is getting things off of my chest and reading how other people are similar or different. I thought I'd start a thread where we list our "warped thoughts". Maybe getting them out there will help us to see how unrealistic they are or just be there as a reminder so we can try to change the tapes going on in our head.

Here are a few of mine:

1. I am a bad person because of past mistakes and, therefore, do not deserve good things to happen to me, to live, be forgiven or be loved.

2. Life is only pain, sadness and being controlled by others so why keep living.

3. Money means control.

4. I've failed at things in the past, so I'm likely to fail at things again.

5. People have hurt me/I have hurt people in the past so I am going to avoid people.

6. Behavioral therapy is brainwashing.

The above isn't coming out the way I planned, but I'm going to post it anyway and see where it goes.

Hello, Chaddiwicker.

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[Rohag]

This is difficult. I’m cursed (blessed?) with absentmindedness and frequently unfocused thoughts. This makes it difficult for me to ruminate darkly on negative things. Yet, they’re there. They’re deep. They erratically emerge in brief explosions of intense, paralyzing emotion.

Here, vaguely discerned, are a few of those warped things:

• I exist, therefore I am guilty.
• All failure and annoyance anywhere near me is my fault and responsibility.
• I have failed, therefore I must be destroyed.
• My poor excuse for a life is an affront to the Fallen.

These irrationalities have a life of their own. They (so far) will not respond to logic. Oh, they remain silent for the most part, but they’re always ready to ambush me, readily triggered by even minor stressors.

Nevertheless, I am determined not to surrender to despair. May I at least not fail in that.

[Mustkeepjob32]

I have a lot of negative beliefs. Some that I know that are irrational, and some that I firmly believe. I do believe I will be destroyed at Armageddon as one of the bad people.