{"id":1000,"date":"2019-01-09T00:19:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/minagawa.design\/blog\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2021-02-28T05:24:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T05:24:56","slug":"negaloop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minagawa.design\/en\/blog\/2019\/01\/09\/negaloop\/","title":{"rendered":"How to break the negative thinking loop"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1002\" src=\"https:\/\/minagawa.design\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/utsu_woman.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"200\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><span>I have depression, but sometimes\u00a0I fall into\u00a0<\/span><strong><span>a loop<\/span><\/strong><span>\u00a0of\u00a0<strong>thoughts such as &#8220;I want to<\/strong>\u00a0die,&#8221;\u00a0<strong>&#8220;<\/strong>\u00a0I want to\u00a0<strong>commit suicide,&#8221; and &#8220;I want to disappear,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0so I thought about how to break that negative thought loop.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div id=\"toc_container\" class=\"no_bullets\"><p class=\"toc_title\">Contents<\/p><ul class=\"toc_list\"><li><a href=\"#What_is_a_negative_thinking_loop\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">1<\/span> What is a negative thinking loop?<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#How_to_break_the_negative_thinking_loop\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">2<\/span> How to break the negative thinking loop<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Be_grateful_and_calm_your_mind\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">3<\/span> Be grateful and calm your mind<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Summary_of_how_to_break_the_negative_thinking_loop\"><span class=\"toc_number toc_depth_1\">4<\/span> Summary of how to break the negative thinking loop<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<h2><span id=\"What_is_a_negative_thinking_loop\"><span class=\"st-dash-design\"><span id=\"i\"><span>What is a negative thinking loop?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\r\n<p><span>In my case, I mutter the words &#8220;I want to die,&#8221; &#8220;I want to commit suicide,&#8221; and &#8220;I want to disappear.&#8221;\u00a0I know that tweeting such words is not good for your mental health.\u00a0And\u00a0<\/span><strong><span>&#8220;it would be considered to have been found, such yourself&#8217;s a bad man&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><span>\u00a0and.\u00a0Then\u00a0, thinking\u00a0<\/span><strong><span>&#8220;I don&#8217;t like this<\/span><\/strong><span>\u00a0kind of\u00a0<strong>life anymore&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0, my thoughts jumped, and I thought\u00a0<strong>&#8220;I want to<\/strong>\u00a0die, I want to disappear&#8221;, and I fell into a loop of negative thinking, &#8220;I&#8217;m a bad person&#8221;, &#8220;I don&#8217;t like it anymore&#8221;. I will end up.\u00a0As the loop expands, various other negative thoughts occur in the gap.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1004\" src=\"https:\/\/minagawa.design\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%BB%E3%83%83%E3%83%88-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"179\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p><span>Mainly when I wake up in the morning or when I&#8217;m alone in the bathroom, I mutter and get hooked on the loop.\u00a0There are other things to do in the bathroom, so if you finish your work and get out of the bathroom, you can come up with something different, but in the morning futon, this is not the case (\u00b4 \uff1b \u03c9 \uff1b \uff40)<\/span><\/p>\r\n<h2><span id=\"How_to_break_the_negative_thinking_loop\"><span class=\"st-dash-design\"><span id=\"i-2\"><span>How to break the negative thinking loop<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\r\n<p><span>&#8220;Negative words&#8221; in the loop of negative thinking are like &#8220;brain habits&#8221;, so I practiced paraphrasing them first.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"has-background has-very-light-gray-background-color\"><span>Death wish \u2192 want to die,\u00a0<\/span><strong><span>do not think<\/span><\/strong><br \/><span>you want to \u2192 suicide want to commit suicide,\u00a0<\/span><strong><span>do not think that<\/span><\/strong><br \/><span>you no longer disappear \u2192 want no longer to disappear,\u00a0<\/span><strong><span>I do not think Nante<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><span>It&#8217;s a very simple thing, but I deny and cancel the words that I muttered unintentionally because it&#8217;s okay to add them later.\u00a0This alone can often avoid a negative thought loop.\u00a0It feels more effective to actually say it out.\u00a0This makes it difficult to shift to subsequent thoughts such as &#8220;I&#8217;m a bad person,&#8221; &#8220;I don&#8217;t like it anymore,&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;m stuck in my life.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span>The story is, &#8220;If you can do it that easily, you won&#8217;t have a hard time!&#8221;\u00a0Even if you try and fall into a loop, you may be able to get out of the negative thinking loop by persistently saying a countervailing word such as &#8220;I don&#8217;t think&#8221; when the negative words come around again. ..\u00a0I can only say, I&#8217;m sorry.<\/span><br \/><span>I think you can arrange how to cancel it in your own way.\u00a0&#8220;I want to die, I&#8217;m lying!&#8221; Or &#8220;I want to commit suicide is something wrong!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span>It seems to be effective to counteract that &#8220;it is not like me to think about that&#8221; in many cases.\u00a0It was too much for me.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<h2><span id=\"Be_grateful_and_calm_your_mind\"><span class=\"st-dash-design\"><span id=\"i-3\"><span>Be grateful and calm your mind<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\r\n<p><span>Even if I break the negative thinking loop, I think that Monmon and negative emotions remain.\u00a0It feels like the back of my chest is tight.\u00a0I don&#8217;t like that.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span>As I wrote on my blog before, in such a case, anyone can do anything, so &#8220;thank you&#8221; will ease that feeling.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-mdblog\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" title=\"\u201cIt's scientifically proven that gratitude makes you healthy and happy\u201d \u2014 MDBloG\" src=\"https:\/\/minagawa.design\/blog\/think\/kansha\/embed\/#?secret=oArvDIHZsK\" width=\"600\" height=\"243\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" data-secret=\"oArvDIHZsK\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<p><span>With gratitude, brain substances such as dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphins are secreted into the brain.\u00a0Dopamine is a euphoric substance, and serotonin is a healing substance that is also known to be effective in depressive states when it stimulates secretion, and there may be individual differences from the state of negative thinking due to their secretion. It will be released to some extent.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1003\" src=\"https:\/\/minagawa.design\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/pose_inoru_woman.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<h2><span id=\"Summary_of_how_to_break_the_negative_thinking_loop\"><span class=\"st-dash-design\"><span id=\"i-4\"><span>Summary of how to break the negative thinking loop<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\r\n<p><span>If I feel like I&#8217;m stuck in a negative thinking loop, I try to practice these two things: &#8220;cancel negative habits&#8221; and &#8220;thank you.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span>Just because I did this is positive and happy!\u00a0<span class=\"\">It&#8217;s not possible to become, but for the time being, you can escape before it hits the bottom, so please try it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have depression, but sometimes\u00a0I fall into\u00a0a loop\u00a0of\u00a0thoughts such as &#8220;I want to\u00a0die,&#8221;\u00a0&#8220;\u00a0I want to\u00a0commit suicide,&#8221; and &#8220;I want to disappear,&#8221;\u00a0so I thought about how to break that negative thought loop. Contents1 What is a negative thinking loop?2 How to break the negative thinking loop3 Be grateful and calm your mind4 Summary of how to break the negative thinking loop What is a negative thinking loop? In my case, I mutter the words &#8220;I want to die,&#8221; &#8220;I want to commit suicide,&#8221; and &#8220;I want to disappear.&#8221;\u00a0I know that tweeting such words is not good for your mental health.\u00a0And\u00a0&#8220;it would &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,24],"tags":[41,45,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minagawa.design\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minagawa.design\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minagawa.design\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minagawa.design\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minagawa.design\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/minagawa.design\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5271,"href":"https:\/\/minagawa.design\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/5271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minagawa.design\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minagawa.design\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minagawa.design\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minagawa.design\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}