Refresher: How Can Sarah Stop Getting So Down on Herself?

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🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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From my Call of the Day archives; over the past 10 years, Sarah has gone through debt, deaths in the family, and self-doubt. Now she wonders whether it's all worth it. How can she stop dwelling on her negative thoughts? Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	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.
0:16.6	Sarah, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. Thank you so much for your time and taking my call.
0:23.2	My pleasure.
0:24.0	What can I do for you?
0:25.3	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
0:40.2	inactivity and just make me isolate myself and want to isolate myself from others.
0:48.6	I'm trying to understand the origins of these thoughts and to stop the thought.
0:55.0	So you have no idea?
0:57.3	You think you don't know where they come from?
1:01.9	Well, I have a couple of ideas.
1:06.2	Why don't you give me your couple of ideas?
1:10.1	The past 10 years have been full of a lot of trauma, personal trauma in my life,
1:16.2	and that involved my mother dying shortly after I got married.
1:22.8	My husband having a chronic illness right after that, my two best friends dying, my father,
1:33.2	having kidney failure, being a caregiver to four different family members as they aged and
1:41.4	experienced dementia and chronic illnesses, pursuing a PhD, getting a full-time
1:48.3	job, experiencing debt, striving towards tenure, having a child. All of those things happened,
1:59.4	you know, in the past 10 years.
2:02.3	On top of that, when I was a child, my mother was chronically ill and was a drug user.
2:10.7	And tell me what these thoughts are that paralyze you during the day.
2:16.5	When something good happens, like I see my son and I get happy about something he's done,
2:22.3	I hear this won't last.
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