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When to not trust my feelings • Otherwise

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Recently I was feeling down about some stuff at work where I didn’t feel I had made progress. On the weekend I set work down and did family stuff, but I couldn’t get my head out of the problems, and the whole world seemed bad to me. I tried to feel better by thinking about good things in my life. But I kept making them into things that are bad about the world in general. I thought: “I have these nice children, I should enjoy this time with them.” Which led to: “I know all these other people who want to have children and it’s not working out, so if I’m unhappy they must feel even worse.” I thought: “Things are objectively going well in my life.” Which would lead me to “Maybe things are about to get a lot worse because of AI or a war or another pandemic.” And to “A lot of my friends are working longer hours than I am on these big problems, and I’m letting them down if I don’t do better at my job. They’re probably working right now even though it’s a weekend.” I hadn’t eaten much and reme

Recently I was feeling down about some stuff at work where I didn’t feel I had made progress. On the weekend I set work down and did family stuff, but I couldn’t get my head out of the problems, and the whole world seemed bad to me. I tried to feel better by thinking about good things in my life. But I kept making them into things that are bad about the world in general. I thought: “I have these nice children, I should enjoy this time with them.” Which led to: “I know all these other people who want to have children and it’s not working out, so if I’m unhappy they must feel even worse.” I thou

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