Time now for a refresher from my Dr. Laura Call of the Day archives. Remember, you can hear my live radio program weekdays 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph, 2011.

Sarah, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. Thank you so much for your time and taking my call.

My pleasure.

What can I do for you?

I'm calling to just humbly ask for your advice on dealing with constant negative thoughts that I have throughout the day that really sometimes paralyze me and

inactivity and just make me isolate myself and want to isolate myself from others.

I'm trying to understand the origins of these thoughts and to stop the thought.

So you have no idea?

You think you don't know where they come from?

Well, I have a couple of ideas.

Why don't you give me your couple of ideas?

The past 10 years have been full of a lot of trauma, personal trauma in my life,

and that involved my mother dying shortly after I got married.

My husband having a chronic illness right after that, my two best friends dying, my father,

having kidney failure, being a caregiver to four different family members as they aged and

experienced dementia and chronic illnesses, pursuing a PhD, getting a full-time

job, experiencing debt, striving towards tenure, having a child. All of those things happened,

you know, in the past 10 years.

On top of that, when I was a child, my mother was chronically ill and was a drug user.

And tell me what these thoughts are that paralyze you during the day.

When something good happens, like I see my son and I get happy about something he's done,

I hear this won't last.

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