Negative thinking during pandemic

[Strongest123]

Hi everyone on here. I hope everyone is having a good Saturday and trying to be as safe as they can be. I myself am having one of my down days. I blessed to say that I have my little princess with me who I absolutely utterly adore. But as I’m playing with her I have this overwhelming feeling of sadness. I do suffer from depression and ocd. I’ve had ocd since childhood, and then that lead to my depression. I’m an avid weightlifter, been training for years and even though gyms are closed I’m blessed to have training equipment at home. I’m on Tintrillex, Zoloft, and Xanax when needed. I’m hoping things start to settle so everything goes back to normal. This whole pandemic makes things harder for people with mental disease. It’s like mental disease to the 2nd power.

One of the things that I do a lot is ruminate. I think constantly. And a lot of my thoughts are negative, the WHAT IFS? Those constantly bombard my mind. Even though I know I should just ignore, I do pay attention to them and do my rituals to try and ease the anxiety. Anyways I’m trying to stay as positive as I can. One thing I know I need to do ASAP is quit the coffee. The caffeine only exacerbates my condition. I hope everyone on here is having a great day. Blessings to all. SAMSON

[Hidden]

I get it. Im much the same. My husband says I think too much, lol. I watch way too much news too. It is a difficult time and staying positive right now is harder. Too many unknowns, mixed messages, etc. Glad you have your princess with you, how old is she?👑👸🏻

[Strongest123 in reply to Hidden]

Hi, my daughters just 9. Turned 9 last month. She knows when I’m down

[Hidden in reply to Strongest123]

Aww sweet. Such a great age. My grandaughters are 12-14. So fun. You just focus on her💜

[Agora1]

Strongest123, I know how difficult this can be for anyone who already has

mental health issues. We must not allow the situation in the world to push

us into a higher level of stress. There is always going to be something to worry

about in our lives. Some that we have control over and some things that we

don't.

I always ask myself when I start to worry, will this accomplish anything? No??

Then we must breathe and back off the ruminating thoughts or they will just

keep growing but get us no where.

There are a lot of unanswered questions right now. What is best to do is to look

at the positive things. Your lovely little girl who you love and adore. The fact that

you are both well is a blessing. The minute we move our attention to "what ifs",

we're in trouble. For whatever reason this happened, where it's going, no one knows

right now. Sooo, the best we can do is live in the Moment. This is all we have for sure

right now.

Anxiety will always take advantage when we are most vulnerable. Staying Positive

will help as well as cutting down on the coffee Right now my friend, give your

little one a big hug. This is what's positive in the present moment. xx

[Kangju]

I'm glad you are trying to stay positive in this situation, remember it's only temporary.

Try to keep doing things that make you happy such as training, spending time with your princess and other things.

It can also be interesting to listen to her point of view about this situation, it might be more positive than our own.

Try to drink just a bit less coffee, reducing it slowly.

[Strongest123 in reply to Kangju]

Hello how are you and thank you for your response. SAMSON

[SCOTTEBOY68]

Question for you why are you on both Zoloff and trintelex? I currently take cymbalta and they talked about switching me To trintelex And stopping cymbalta. So I'm curious as to why they kept you on both. Thanks for any information you can give me in advance

[matifkk]

Hi strongest123 the main thing you can do is meditation to help your mind have aware of your thoughts. There is a blessed speaker known as BKShivani you should listen to her about thoughts and meditation. Hope this will help you. Have a great day.

[Strongest123 in reply to matifkk]

Thank you I appreciate it