30 August

Do you ruminate? (No cow jokes.) That cycle, where emotions and feelings produce thoughts, often about the emotions and feelings, and then that extra thinking makes the emotions and feelings even stronger, making you think more about it all, and then the feelings and emotions get even stronger...and on and on and on. It's not so much a cycle as a spiral, because each time you go around the level of emotion and feeling is stronger, and the amount of thinking increases. You get sucked deeper and deeper into the vortex, like a black hole. This is how depression works, but a lot of us probably do milder forms of it as well, every day. We're stuck in our heads.