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by wickedchicken 5145 days ago
This basic principle, condensed into a comic: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2347

A smart way to avoid this is to realize that sometimes "your brain wants to feel bad, so it's determined to find a reason to feel that way." If you were feeling great and now feel awful because of a thought (or reading unrelated news), then this is probably what happened.