In an article for Scientific American, psychotherapist Tori Rodriguez pulls together some of this research, and explains the role of emotions such as anger and sadness in the human experience. Negative thoughts are actually vital to our well-being and mental health, according to recent studies. They can range from random images to disturbing and violent ideas like punching someone in the face or hurting yourself. They’re called “intrusive thoughts” and nearly everyone has them from time to time. At the time, negative thoughts may seem completely rational and logical. This tends to happen when we have few distractions – which is why lying awake at night churning things over in our mind is a familiar feeling to many. Spiraling negative thoughts can be a result of overthinking. Psychologists link negative thinking to depression, anxiety, chronic worry and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It makes you feel you’re not effective in the world. A: Negative thinking makes you feel blue about the world, about yourself, about the future.
Anxiety commonly causes all types of weird and scary thoughts, because anxiety changes the way that your brain interprets and stores information. Scary thoughts are thoughts that are by their very nature distressing, and when they occur it can be very difficult to push the thought away. Most Thoughts Are Normal – But Obsessing About Them Isn’t But if you feel “stuck” on a particular thought and wracked by feelings of anxiety, guilt, disgust, and other negative feelings because of it, and you can’t stop thinking about it, this is not normal. NATs are common, especially in depressive and anxiety disorders. They seem to revolve around themes of loss, failure and danger. These thoughts “pop into” awareness, sometimes out of the blue, but often are triggered by situation you are in or what you are thinking about or doing. What does it mean to have dark thoughts?.
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