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Can I just have help? I hate thinking the way that I do. Like the thoughts I get, I mean. When my friends look at me and ask me if I'm okay, I feel like I always have to say yes. I'm alone but they are all around me. Not real people, others. The ones that I think are real. The ones that are in my head. I don't understand why my mind decides that it should be like that. If you're reading this then I want to say that I'm sorry. I just need to get this out.
I have felt like this for a while and I think that I need to get help. However, I hate talking to people one-on-one/ face-to-face. I don't know what it is and frankly, I blame it on Covid-19. I think many people blame many things on Covid. Like how I am.
I might post another. This is it for now. Any suggestions? I can write more. Call me RandomRiter. :)
-The most RandomRiter.
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You are not your thoughts. Their arrival in your head does not make them automatically meaningful. I'm sure you have had thoughts that showed up and soon got replaced without much notice. It's like they were presented in a language you don't understand. Those thoughts dissolved because you gave them nothing - no attention, no opinions, no added dramatic story, no emotional reaction.
All thoughts come and go. What were you thinking about this time yesterday? Thoughts linger because you give them energy. This comes in the form of your attention, initially, and then when you add the mental comments and some emotions, the thought is super charged with staying power. This is the case for good, bad, helpful, harmful, welcomed, and unwanted thoughts.
You are not your thoughts. You are the awareness that has a very powerful and useful thinking instrument (your mind / brain) that needs to be better understood and managed.
You are the one who can and should decide which thoughts are worthy of further consideration.
Unwanted thoughts will continue to show up. This can't be prevented. They can't be forced to leave. This would only energize them. When the next one shows up, let it stay without you reacting in any way - no labels, opinions, mental comments, or emotions. Eventually it will dissolve back into the nothingness from which it came and will be replaced with another, perhaps, unwanted thought. If so, repeat the no reaction process. When a wanted thought shows up, energize it with attention, add mental comments, get emotional, and maybe even do something supportive.
ReplyThank you for the help. I will try my best to use this method in the future.
ReplyTry this method the next time you get an unwanted thought.
ReplyAre you experiencing hallucinations? If you're seeing people who aren't really there, then that's something you can and should try to get help with. It's nothing to be ashamed of, it's just a thing that your brain does, and you can try different things to help manage it.
https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/psychosis/about-psychosis/
I know that you don't like talking to people face-to-face, but you might have to spend at least some time with your GP, or a specialist. If you explain to them that you don't like one-to-one meetings, they might be able to accommodate you with an online consultation or something, but they will want to offer you some kind of support.
Is the discomfort of a ten minute face-to-face consultation worth not getting any treatment for the way you're experiencing the world right now?
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