'Trains of thought' is a good metaphor, because your thoughts do run on rails, and they do track improvement and maintenance each time you use one pathway.

That's why it's not that simple, to just think positively, and maybe you need antidepressants to even do that. But it's part of therapy to try to leave those trails more often and lay new tracks that lead to more positive places so you hopefully won't need antidepressants for the rest of your life.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago

Hard agree. I have a health condition that is frightening to experience and went undiagnosed for decades. Feeling anything reminiscent of its symptoms now spikes my anxiety just as much as if it was the condition itself. I'm slowly deconditioning myself, but that track is so well worn that it's going to take persistence and a lot of time.