![]() Ah, fuck! I’m doing it again! See? I’m a loser! Argh!”īelieve it or not, this is part of the beauty of being human. ![]() Oh my God, I feel like such a loser for calling myself a loser. Maybe you’re engaging in it right now: “God, I do the Feedback Loop all the time-I’m such a loser for doing it. Chances are you’ve engaged in it more than a few times. _ Believe it or not, this is part of the beauty of being human. Or you get sad and alone so often that it makes you feel even more sad and alone just thinking about it. Or you feel so guilty for every mistake you make that you begin to feel guilty about how guilty you’re feeling. Or you’re so worried about doing the right thing all the time that you become worried about how much you’re worrying. Now look at you: you’re angry at yourself getting angry about being angry. And then, in your petty rage, you realize that being angry all the time makes you a shallow and mean person, and you hate this you hate it so much that you get angry at yourself. And the fact that you get pissed off so easily starts to piss you off even more. You get pissed off at the stupidest, most inane stuff, and you have no idea why. Now you’re anxious about your anxiety, which is causing more anxiety. Now you’re becoming anxious about being anxious. That anxiety cripples you and you start wondering why you’re so anxious. You get anxious about confronting somebody in your life. ![]() There’s an insidious quirk to your brain that, if you let it, can drive you absolutely batty. To prevent this feedback loop, we should accept our pain, not fight it, writes Mark Manson. ![]() Fighting a negative experience is a negative experience in itself. We start to feel depressed about being depressed, anxious about feeling anxious. Once depression or anxiety hits, a feedback loop from hell can begin. ![]()
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