i observed my thoughts for 1 hour and here are the results

Today I was having this online class which was relatively chill and simple in contents. I got bored quickly then I thought of doing an experiment of noting down my automatic thoughts on paper, and counting & categorizing them. Here's my result during the span of ~1 hour:

- thoughts or images about my appearance: 34 times. I've been under some stress for sometime and emotional swings made my face look tired and dull, so I was anxious about my appearance at the moment.

- thoughts of my bf: 31 times. I'm anxious attachment type

- Annoyed by my automatic thoughts and mental health issues, thinking I have a "problem" and trying to find ways to fix it: 15 times (this lead to a later rabbit hole search on reddit)

- Imaging about a "perfect" future that everything is fixed: 6 times

- Comments / judgements on others: 5 times

- Creating content: 4 times (this is the thought that lead to this Reddit post)

- Feeling bored: 4 times

- Reassure myself everything will be ok: 1 time

- Be proud of myself: 1 time

I've been doing therapy and healing for a few years now and I'm fairly familiar with my core believes. Yet quantifying the automatic thoughts and the sheer amount of negative automatic thoughts still kind of shocked me!