Still, of all the things I do those are probably the worst. Both things are really detrimental to my mental health, and I try to combat them with things like CBT techniques and the like, but in recent times that hasn’t been enough (at least where the anxiety / panic attacks are concerned).
And if something happens, my brain immediately pulls up the Worst Possible Outcome and then starts listing out all the reasons why it makes perfect sense for that to happen so that I start believing it. The littlest things can make me feel completely worthless, and my immediate, reflexive thoughts are incredibly harsh and self-deprecating.
I’m not sure I would call them “habits” since they’re symptoms of my mental illnesses (chronic severe depression and anxiety disorder respectively), but I’m both extremely critical of myself, and I tend to catastrophize.
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