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The issue in these cases is that you have a hard time not focusing on them. These intrusive thoughts come all the time, take up mental energy and time. It would
by mewpmewp2 5y ago
The issue in these cases is that you have a hard time not focusing on them. These intrusive thoughts come all the time, take up mental energy and time. It would be best to just focus on actually building things, but it's not always as simple.
It may alleviate the thoughts if you knew for sure that you are not an impostor from a source you can trust or perhaps it will require therapy. Or maybe you can actually push through it, as you said. Anxiety, depression and low self esteem however can take a strong enough toll that simply pushing through and dealing with it may be too difficult without help.
- onjectic 5y agoHaving a very hard time not focusing on intrusive thoughts is a symptom of OCD.
- mewpmewp2 5y agoYeah, but this is depression and anxiety too. Constantly having to deal with negative thoughts. In theory, just change brain chemistry slightly and you will have fewer negative thoughts and more positive. Not everyone has similar amount of doubts. So an outsider who says "just deal with it", won't know the ratio and magnitude of negative to positive thoughts, someone else might have. Everyone has doubts, but frequency and strength may vary.