Thoughts
Anxiety and low mood don't just change how you feel. They change how you think. Worry speeds the mind up and pushes it toward worst-case outcomes. Depression can slow thinking down, narrow it, and color it gray. The mind can get stuck in loops, replaying the same worry or the same regret without resolving it. Thoughts can also arrive uninvited and disturbing, with no real connection to what you want or believe. This category covers those experiences: the racing, the looping, the intrusive thoughts, the brain fog that makes focus hard to hold. Distressing thoughts can feel like proof that something is deeply wrong, but on their own they're a symptom, not a verdict. The page each one links to explains what's behind it and what tends to help.
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Brain fog
A plain-language term for cloudy, slow, or unfocused thinking.
Mixed SymptomCatastrophizing
A thinking pattern where the mind jumps to the worst outcome and treats it as likely.
Mixed SymptomDepersonalization
A feeling of being detached from yourself, as if watching your own thoughts and body from outside.
Mixed SymptomDerealization
A sense that the world around you feels unreal, distant, or dreamlike.
Mixed SymptomFlashbacks
A vivid re-experiencing of a traumatic event, where part of the past feels like it's happening now.
Mixed SymptomHallucinations
Perceiving something that isn't there, an experience that feels real but has no external source.
Mixed SymptomIntrusive thoughts
Intrusive thoughts are unwanted, disturbing thoughts or images that pop into your mind.
Strong SymptomParanoia
An intense, unfounded distrust or suspicion of others without good evidence.
Mixed SymptomRacing thoughts
Racing thoughts are fast, crowded thinking that jumps from topic to topic and feels hard to slow down.
Strong SymptomSuicidal thoughts
Thoughts ranging from wishing you weren't here to planning to end your life.
Mixed SymptomWorry
A chain of "what if" thoughts about possible future problems.
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