Ruminating

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I have been on medication and had CBT in the past for anxiety, gradually reduced SSRIs and managing with strategies. Except I'm not managing at the minute. I can't stop ruminating over past mistakes and catastrophising the absolute worst case scenario each time. All my thinking is work related so I worry about it all week when I'm there then completely obsess when I'm at home at the weekend.

I think its time to go back to my GP and have resigned myself to restarting meds again. CBT did help and I'm trying to apply what I found useful before but I can feel the slide happening and it seems like every week I find something more to obsess over (worrying about what I did 10+ years ago for example).

So, for anyone who has been in a similar position, any advice of how to break tjis cycle?

I'm sorry, I know it's very hard.

I would seriously recommend a book called Mindfulness, Finding Peace In a Frantic World

I suggest getting it as an audio book, deals with the way our minds work and why we get trapped in doing things like ruminating.
The book offers CBT based short meditations for a total of 8 weeks

Has has brilliant results with people suffering all sorts of mental issues and has helped me with peace of mind.

Good luck

Thank you so much @Blackopal I will definitely check this out. Peace of mind sounds like absolute bliss! Trapped in a cycle is exactly how I feel

Ha! Well, I would love a constant state of peace of mind! I am very much a work in progress

I really hope you do look at this book and it helps you as much as it did me.
They explain how we use the wrong part of our minds to try and solve issues and this causes problems.
So, we have an emotion or become anxious and our mind tries to solve the 'problem' by scanning memories to see what caused the emotion. This can lead us to ruminate and also to forecast into future scenarios.
The book just teaches really simple ways of pulling your mind back to the present.