![]() Aren't I lucky? She’s like the metaphorical devil hovering above my shoulder, telling me awful things, usually about myself. That said, I think of Bad News Betsy as my own personal Negative Nancy. So, what is the difference between a Bad News Betsy and a Negative Nancy? The most obvious one is that you call actual people Negative Nancies, but Bad News Betsy is made up. Schizoaffective Disorder and the Difference between Bad News Betsy and a Negative Nancy I’m not allowed to post here some of the names I call her. The reason it helps to think of Bad News Betsy as an entity rather than an abstract concept like negative self-talk is that I can interact with her, and I can argue with her. The list usually revolves around me being bad and incompetent. Here are the kinds of things Bad News Betsy tells me: that my husband Tom is going to lose his job (which is where we get our insurance and most of our income), that I’m ugly, that I’m a bad person, that I’m a bad adult, that I’m a bad sister, that I’m a bad wife, etc. The list goes on and on. But it helps to think of her as an entity. I don’t actually hear or see Bad News Betsy. This is not to be confused with my voices. ![]() ![]() ![]() And my source of all that is Bad News Betsy whispering in my ear. And he calls my negative self-talk the musings of “Bad News Betsy.” This Schizoaffective Can’t Say Here the Things She Calls Bad News Betsyįirst of all, negative self-talk is just what it sounds like-you feed yourself depressing, angry information. Decades ago, when I started hearing voices, he dubbed them the “Blue Meanies” after the bad guys in the animated Beatles movie Yellow Submarine. ![]()
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