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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

After about a week of this, I'll probably invest in more cognitive reappraisal tools, like journaling and making a few if-then plans for the next crisis

but psych science suggests that if I do that *right now*, I'll probably just be spinning in anxiety instead of *actually* reprocessing

Cadence and timing matters for self-care! When you're an intellectualizer (which I suspect if you follow me you are), it's easy to want to chase the feeling of "productivity" even in recovery from events!