“Worseness” thoughts take your pain and grind more stress into it, increasing your suffering. You’re going to have your own particular way of mentally tormenting yourself, but it’s really just a manufactured anxiety about what might happen in the future or stressing about what happened in the past. What did I miss? Why didn’t I do something differently? How am I supposed to live with this now? Did I cause all this? Those are the kinds of thoughts that shut you down and shut you off. They’re not useful. They create suffering. They make things worse. “Wellness” thoughts have the opposite effect:
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