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- Date posted
- 3y
AnxiousaddieAnxiousaddie
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 3y
Following this thread. Really struggling with this today
Sonoma16Sonoma16
- Date posted
- 3y
One of my hardest things is struggling with ruminating over the past. They are constantly popping into my head.
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- Date posted
- 3y
Following up! What ended up helping me was listening to music I know well - much harder to dwell on negative thoughts when the little voice in my head wants to sing along
Maybe,MaybeNotMaybe,MaybeNot
- Date posted
- 3y
I tell myself to stop because ruminating about it didn’t work before. Then I just notice the thoughts come in an don’t engage with them.
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Boss34
- Date posted
- 20w
Question…
When you get a stuck thought in your mind, as stupid or untrue as it may be, how do any of you block them out, or try to at least? It’s like my mind has another voice telling me making up the stupidest things?
moon0270
- Date posted
- 19w
Mental compulsions/ rumination
So hard to not engage the thoughts because even though it's from the "past" (i don't even know if im remembering things correctly and it kills me) and i can't change it, I just NEED to prove it to myself that it didn't happen this way. If you'd asked me questions maybe a few months ago, I would have been able to lucidly explain things. Now I just feel like I'm in a constant swarm of thoughts, not knowing if anything is real. If my brain is to be trusted. Wish I could just get hypnosis to forget
Patrick McGrath
- User type
- Therapist
- Date posted
- 15w
Advice on instrusive thoughts that won't stop?
What's a piece of advice you give when someone has constantly intrusive thoughts and ruminations that won't stop? Interested to see what you tell others.....more on this when I see some replies!!!
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