Do You Make A Mountain Out Of A Mole Hill?
By sunkissed
@sunkissed (4330)
United States
May 22, 2008 11:55am CST
Well I am one of those people that tends to make things worse than they really are most of the times. When something goes wrong ,I always think of the worse case senero.It can be the simpliest thing and I will make it seem hard.I guees I am just a worry wort. Do you make a mountain out of a mole hill?
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@gemini_rose (16264)
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22 May 08
Me, I do!! All the time, I work myself up into such a state that you would think that a real catastrophe had happened when in fact it is something so little it is not worth getting ruffled over!!
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@sunkissed (4330)
• United States
22 May 08
gemini, I do the very same thing.I guess that is why I have high blood pressure!!Why do we do this? I have been this way all my life.it is worse now that i live alone and have to do everything by myself, and have to make all the decisions.
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@gemini_rose (16264)
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22 May 08
Decisions, oh do not get me started on decision making!! I get myself in a right tizzy and it takes me days to make a simple decision. I am worse if it is a decision to make about money.
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@sunkissed (4330)
• United States
22 May 08
Oh, you can not be any worse than me. I can not decide on anything.I will be sick with worry, as to what to do.. Not just money. But when it comes to money oh, man I am really a mess then,.because i have so little of it to go around!!I am always second guessing myself, even after I do make a decission!!
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@mcat19 (1357)
• United States
22 May 08
I have a friend who does this; it drives me crazy. Instead of waiting for something, she goes into a tailspin imagining the worst. Just wait for whatever happens and deal with it. A lot of energy is wasted, but she tells me she is just being proactive. I wait and take care of whatever happens. Every time you fall, you don't break your leg.
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@sunkissed (4330)
• United States
22 May 08
You are right, we should all be more like you.
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@nilzerous1 (2434)
• India
22 May 08
No. Absolutely never. I rather tend to ignore happenings in the world around me that might have compelled others to react . It is my habit to accept things calmly and once it is over rarely I retain in my memory what has happened.
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@nilzerous1 (2434)
• India
23 May 08
Had I been in your position, I should be thinking alike.
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@sunkissed (4330)
• United States
22 May 08
Good for you. Seems everything has gone wrong for me in the past, so I just asume the same is always going to happen all the time.
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@magikrose (5429)
• United States
22 May 08
Yeah like you Ihave been known to um..."over react" over something to tiny and really un-necessary. All I do when I realise that I over reacted is appologize and do what Ican to correct it.
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@sunkissed (4330)
• United States
22 May 08
Well I think we all can do this at times. Good you do apoligize and correct it.
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@sun2day (1062)
• Virgin Islands (U.S.)
2 Jun 08
I ignore things that seems insignificant. There are more important things to worry about.
@anawar (2404)
• United States
24 May 08
Oh, guilty as charged. Not to blame my mom, but she taught me to plan for the worst, but hope for the best.
That lead to all manner of catastrophic thinking and I still do it now.
I also have strange superstition, that if I think something good will happen to me, it will be taken away because I dared dream of it.
Now, that is one for a psychologist. lol
