As your thoughts persist, so does your externalisation of them. The unhelpful and destructive behaviours your thoughts trip you into engaging with evolve into habits: turning to the bottle becomes your daily ritual, that cheat-day pizza and ice cream binge becomes your regular nightly dinner, your snappiness becomes your default setting, and your break from socialising becomes a state of permanent isolation. Before you know it, you find yourself in a permanent cycle of self-flagellation. You hate yourself for continuing to do what you do and beat yourself up horrendously over it, but no amount
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