so a regular cringe attack is like, u remember something that u actually did that was embarrassing and u have an external reaction to some degree. I involuntarily get those from time to time, but more often I get cringe attacks from hypothetical situations. Like my brain is like "what if you _" and the thought of me doing that affects me to the point where I tense up, take a deep breath in, and as of recently outwardly tell the thoughts to go f*** themselves. Can anyone relate/tell me how to stop this? I don't wanna be out in public screaming "fuck you!!" and gasping looking crazy as hell

aight avy posting funny and all but i need some help fr

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Control your thoughts damn bro

i don’t know fam
maybe get some sleep. you could be stressed.

yo what if just hypothetically you go think what if... everything goes right. weird right ?? try forcing yourself seeing the other side for once

hmmm that could actually work, ill try it

What if you applied for a job

Happens to me alot
it's more of the uncertainty

all jokes aside fam i get like this when ive been spending too much time by myself trust me thats why youll be aight

Thanks fam

You’re human fam and with an idle mind.

Srs when you start getting busy none of this will happen.

It’s a sign of growth

You probably just have anxiety.

It might be insecurity (not to shame you). I imagine situations for myself where I fail at something (which is somewhat akin to what you’re saying) and personally I know it stems from some self-identification issues. If this is the case for you too then you have to 1. acknowledge it 2. try to define the source(s) 3. work to better yourself in thought and practice (this is general but it’s hard to be specific without knowing exactly what your imaginations fixate on)

start meditating and learning to recognize when youre imagining some fantasy world in your head

Yeah ik I got an issue w low self esteem, it’s getting better though

Fam what if I told u I meditate regularly

For example (this actually happened a month ago): I go to dominos and pick up a pizza and everything goes fine, but after I walk out I think “what if I made a big ass scene and lashed out at everyone in there”

how come you cant notice your thoughts then? when u see them let them go

How long have you been dealing with this?

And what is your meditation practice like?

Oh lmao I have thoughts like that too but it’s not necessarily what I was thinking of when I wrote my initial post. I feel like stuff like that is ‘just’ a sort of existential angst. Like it’s just sorta frustrating or confusing to think of how random yet rule-governed life in modern society feels. So we have these feelings just below the surface of like, “what if I could just do some totally unreasonable s*** and make a scene JUST BECAUSE that would be an interesting break from the mundaneness that most social interactions are.”

Idk, that’s my 2 cents at least. I’m approaching it in terms of the mundane but it could also be anger/anxiety or any # of things. So swap the above for “what if I made a scene just because I feel so angry/scared/frustrated/confused about life.” I’m not sure if these types of thoughts are that big of a deal for most people, but some people of course do actually end up making random scenes (or worse) once they’ve hit a breaking point

Because you don't have dominion over your mind