You are not your first thought. You are your second thought.
A common critique of the "sad girl" or "overthinking" genre is that it romanticizes mental illness. Bad Thinking Diary skirts this line carefully. It does not celebrate the protagonist's spiral; rather, it depicts the exhausting consequences of it. Bad Thinking Diary
The good news is that you are not stuck with this diary. You can shred it. The process is called , a core component of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). You don’t need a therapist to begin; you just need to challenge the author. You are not your first thought
Interestingly, the act of keeping the Bad Thinking Diary is not inherently destructive. The diary serves as a . The true damage occurs only when the diarist treats the entries as truth rather than weather . Bad Thinking Diary skirts this line carefully