Dear Cruzzie:

Once again, I am so impressed by your writing, by the clarity and organization of your thinking as expressed in your writing. Straightforward, clear, free from unnecessary add-ons. You wrote that you are a mess, but your writing doesn’t read at all like a mess, it reads very sane, organized.

The kitchen meltdown is a perfect example of what happens when one mistake (forgetting to add the almond milk to the cookies) is extended to all-or-nothing distorted thinking to “I can’t do anything right..a total failure…I suck” and continues to  predicting the future distorted thinking, “no one will ever want me” (I learned these in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy).

It is very encouraging that you proceeded to clean the kitchen and that you redid the cookies. Excellent job in the kitchen and writing about it!

anita