And it can sort of turn into a bit of a confirmation bias. You feel a certain way about yourself,

whether that's rooted in reality or not, right? So the way that you feel about yourself is right now, pretty bad. You feel like you're worthless, you feel like you're not pretty, you feel like all the things you described.

And that may or may not be rooted in reality, I'm assuming it's not rooted in reality,

but you start to interpret everything that happens to you

through the lens of that belief that you have about yourself.

So since you think you're worthless,

you're gonna interpret what happens around you

as proof that that feeling is true.

Right?

So because you have this sort of hypothesis about yourself,

everything that happens around you, you're going to assume is proof of that.

When that may not be the case, there's a lot of other stuff that is proving the opposite point that you're just ignoring or filtering out.

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