Picture an object, bit like a hill, with the top/centre a huge pit. If you reach the top you fall down the pit.
Your mood exists on the side of the hill and without other inputs you would slide slowly down the hill.
Every time you get a stimulus, from whatever direction, you move up the hill closer to 'the pit'.
In real life, you get lots of little niggles that keep pushing you up the slope and these can push you to the edge of 'the pit' such that even the smallest input can tip you over into the catastrophe pit.
How many times have you arrived somewhere e.g. home at night, after a day full of petty niggles and a very small niggle has made you blow your top. You sit down later and think what the ....happened? that is catastrophe theory.
If you have had a shed load of niggles, sit down and chill out before tempting yourself with more.
Stay chilled!
Kathleen
Sounds a bit ticklish doesn't it? Like you could go into your shed and they would jump in your wellies (gumboots) or something. heh, heh...
