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Originally Posted by PreggieUBA2C
 That is a very simplistic explanation, but the great news about this is that I am also able to retrain my brain to function much better. I can stop the negative feedback loop deliberately, and have done so; my cingulate gyrus is no longer allowed its tendency toward overactivity. I rejected looped thoughts- no matter what they were- and replaced them with others. At first this was extremely difficult because the brain acts like something is being overlooked and tries harder to convey the information in the loop, so to combat that, I had to be a lot tougher and more insistent. Then it abated. I no longer have a negative feedback loop at all. It took brain retraining to accomplish that, and it was deliberate and necessary. If I hadn't done this, the rest of my body and mind would still suffer. Op, from the way that you have described how your dd can have what seems like a fine day, but upon review find it to have been all negative (and then adding onto negatives over and over again), it really does seem to me to be a cingulate issue and probably compounded with limbic sytem overactivity as well. ETA: One of my children was also affected similarly, and I worked with him to learn how to retrain his thought patterns to reject the loops. I used a key phrase for him if he didn't recognise it himself and that was simply, "That's a loop, sweetie." He would adjust his thoughts as needed and his negativity has all but completely disappeared with the exception of a healthy amount of it for reasonable cause. We spent a lot of time discussing this together too, so it wasn't a child-training tactic at all; he did the work once he also recognised it in himself. He's 6 yrs old now; we did this when he was five. |
Could you share more details about how you helped your son do this? I have a child who gets stuck in loops as well and could use some ideas!
