Hi there Bobo
Welcome to Beyond Blue and let me say that you are definitely not on your own with what you’ve described. There’s 100’s but no doubt, 1000’s of us out there who can understand where you’re coming from.
Though I can’t say how many of those would be smokers – but that’s a personal, individual choice.
Oh boy, over-thinking things and then deciding on what you’ve thought on is something very bad and you just go over and over about it, till it pretty much exhausts you – not a good way to be. So you lock that one into your mind and then find another scenario and beat yourself up over that one and before long, you’ve got another stressor.
The word ‘cure’ is an interesting one also – maybe we should not aim so deeply for a cure, but more of a way to fix a situation; come up with a solution for the problem. Perhaps by talking it through with a friend/family member or perhaps a trained professional (dr or counsellor or the like), so you receive other options for how to deal with such concerns.
I hope I’ve made sense here and would love to hear back from you.
Neil
