Non stop thinking

[Shelley24]

I'm having a lot of trouble stopping the thinking of my anxiety and observing how I'm acting and feeling, I started sertraline 12 days ago and I am a lot calmer and intrusive thoughts have slowed right down but now just constantly thinking about my anxiety and if I'm acting normal ect, any tips how to get out of this cycle?

[20Voices]

It is good to hear you are feeling calmer that helps. I found that I was always checking myself and wondering if I was doing things that people found strange.

First thing I found out was to try and recognize when I was having the thoughts I wanted to change. Then recognize what situations caused the thoughts. Then identify the positive and negatives of the thoughts and how to change the negatives into positives.

I also learned a quick breathing exercise that I could quickly concentrate on for a few breaths that helped to disrupt the negative thoughts. That helped to stop them for a little while.

Take care.

[Shelley24]

Yeah I'm always doing that rather annoying and ok thank you 😊