Oh my God. You're listening to Renegade Talk Radio. Welcome to How Can This Happen? With Betsy Bell at the

Double B Studios in Las Vegas, Nevada. Home of Entertainment and Sin. We invented it. We wish we did. And I can tell you all about it because I've lived here for a very long time. But before we get there, I just want to say one thing. That you choose which kind of spiraling you do.

Spiraling actually goes both ways, up or down.

But you choose the way you're going to go.

Did you know that Miriam doesn't think so?

Who the hell is Miriam?

Oh, I mean the definition, according to Miriam Webster.

Well, she is the defining post of all times because she describes spiraling. And this is what it said. Spiraling is a rapid, uncontrollable

cycle of negative fear-driven thoughts, often triggered by stress, uncertainty, or fatigue.

Yeah, those spirals, they just keep beating you until you're tired.

It also said that spiraling manifests as racing thoughts.

Catastrophic, what if, thinking.

The meaning of a spiral, however, is that a spiral is a curve that winds around a fixed

center point or axis, continually, continuously, moving farther away from a

closer or closer to it. I didn't say that right. So, that is a misquote. The point is that a spiral

curves around a fixed center point, and that is the point I wish to make. Just so you know.

So why is spiraling a rapid uncontrollable cycle?

You choose to be negative.

You choose whether your thoughts are fear-driven or not.

So I don't want to hear that it's uncontrollable triggered by stress. You know what causes fatigue, a constant

barrage of incoming thoughts that invade your brain, and then your brain finally says,

okay, I give in.

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