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Mental Health: Managing Mental Chatter

A Slight Change of Plans

The Importance of Stepping Back and Reconciling the Situation

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We fall prey to this illusion when we're actively repeating those loops in our mind that we are actually making progress because just merely indulging in that topic, right? Like staying in that space. I think it fools our brains into thinking. I am, in fact, advancing because look at how much airtime this topic is getting in my mind. And then only maybe hours later, do you realize, oh crap, I'm in exactly the same position that I was in at the beginning. So that's when you really need this ability to step back, if you will, and just recognize, wait, this approach isn't working. Let me shift perspective or do any number of other things

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