Heeey, I've never been like this before and I know I've always had an aniexty issue but this is just bad. Lately I've been over-anaylzing everything! How I was when I was a little kid till now... what disorder is this? Someone please help

How does your anxiety issue express itself? What is happening?

It expresses itself okay, but then ill get a stupid negative thought out of nowhere and ill think I did something stupid as a kid for my family to dislike me or something, this is very wrong ofme tothink this? What disorder is this?

Does your family dislike you and you don't get long with them?

They don't dislike me, but I do have a lot of issues with my family and they do put me down a lot saying I've done a lot of stupid things in the past but why would I think of that as a kid?

It sounds like you are buying the product they are selling you and obsessing over it a bit. We all do stupid things as kids. (Of course, THEY never did stupid things as kids... ) That's how we learn. First, stop taking to heart what they say. Can you laugh it off both to them and to yourself with the conclusion, "Yup, and that's how I got to be so wise now"?

You that is very true and I already know that but sometimes I can't help but over-analyze stuff. I'm not sure what to do at this point?

How can I break this bad habit?

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Originally Posted by jennettte

how can i break this bad habit?

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The easiest way to do that is to replace it something else.

What can you say to yourself -- one validating/affirming sentence -- each time someone, or even your yourself, puts you down?

Years ago, Al Franken played a therapist named Stuart Smalley on the TV show Saturday Night Live. Stuart would boost himself with daily affirmations such as, "I deserve good things. I am entitled to my share of happiness. I refuse to beat myself up. I am attractive person. I am fun to be with." Before he met with clients, he would say to himself, "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me."

Here's a transcript of one of the skits --

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/91/91asmalley.phtml

Maybe you need to take a lesson from Stuart Smalley ;).