Does Anyone Else Constantly Cringe Thinking About Past Mistakes?  

"Does Anyone Else Constantly Cringe Thinking About about Past Mistakes?"
Many people I work with repeatedly think about past mistakes or replay their prior social experiences. Like everyone else, I’ve embarrassed myself MANY times, and could tell you some pretty embarrassing stories. But it can be important to understand why this “rumination” happens, whether it’s helpful, and what we can do about it. Because the process tends to make us pretty unhappy.
This is part of a segment where I briefly answer popular social anxiety questions from Reddit or other platforms: Rapid-Fire Reddit.
We'll talk about:
0:00 - Intro
0:30 - Ruminating can lead to depression
1:00 - We aren’t accurate reporters of our own social performance
1:18 - Relating past mistakes is triggering in the present
1:47 - Why do we replay past mistakes?
2:25 - The key question to ask yourself to stop ruminating
3:10 - Why replaying mistakes doesn’t help
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