A possible diagnosis for my disfunctional thought patterns from writer Samuel Park, guest blogging on Anne R. Allen's blog:
6. Avoid Avalanche Thinking
...[W]e’re writers, we have big imaginations, and it’s hard to resist avalanche thinking: “Agent X doesn’t want my manuscript, which probably means that Agent Y won’t either, and no agent will ever want me, and that’s because I have no talent, and if I have no talent, then I’ll never sell a book, and if I never sell a book no one will ever love me, and no one will ever love me then daddy was right when he called me a loser, and so on and so on.”
Read more tips for the emotional self care of writers here.
So I'm an avalanche thinker. But avalanches are at least 500% more impressive than depressive spirals, am I right? They look a lot better in HD...