Freaking out at the first whiff of failure

I'm not sure if this is anxiety or what but for years now I've always had a tendency to go crazy the minute something happens (when it's my fault) that can hurt my future in any way... I start to immediately see it as "the proof" that nothing good will ever come out of me, I'm destined to a life of failure and total ruin, living on the street etc' and my thought pattern spirals down to a full blown attack of - not sure what (but with crying, suicidal thoughts, and in the past breaking furniture and suicide attempts and so on). Does anyone know if this is a kind of anxiety disorder?

.... *rolls it back and forth in his head* I'm trying to see the bad in knowing that bad stuff is bad, lol. maybe your over reacting and causing more damage the actual damage that would ensue, but otherwise it seems like a semi-healthy response to me? carry on!

as a note of seriousness, you might want to focus that emotional energy on preventing this "possible future outcome" as opposed to breaking furniture and depression. but knowing that bad stuff is going to happen and being upset about it is... well... healthy I think.

I didn't mean that it's generally irrational to be upset about bad stuff happening, I was talking about the extent in which I freak out about it (like trying to kill myself because of difficulty in some course or wanting to quit my job because of a comment from a manager that I'm not doing well enough and so on). Maybe this isn't an anxiety issue, I don't know.

This is definitely a symptom of anxiety. I have read in a few places that people with certain types of anxiety will blow situations out of proportion and jump to the worst possible (and often unrealistic) conclusions. I suffer from this as well from time to time.

This may be a form of "catastrophic thinking". Take a look here:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/articl ... tml?cat=70.

The most important thing is to not let your negative emotions control how you think. If something is not going well, take some time to calm yourself and your mind and realize that the consequences are not as dire as you make them out to be. If you are committed to what you are doing, you can always fix mistakes - we are human after all.

This happens to me. For example, yesterday, I had a math exam and walking out, I knew for a fact I failed. I have not exactly been successful in college, and have even dropped out before so I am scared of this happening again. Yesterday I was completely suicidal after the math test. I kept crying and explaining to my boyfriend that I was gonna have to drop out of school again and I was ruining all of my grades. I was completely convinced that I did not have the mental capacity to be in college and the only thing I was ever going to do in life was be a waitress. I felt like I wasnt good at anything and that life was completely pointless for me. I did not do anything productive for the rest of the day and just fantasized about how nice it would be to be dead. All of this was because of a bad math test. Little things like this make me feel like a complete idiot and it seems as though someone as dumb as me should not be alive.