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Questionable Questing

Corsair175lol
Corsair175lol
You be more intrusive, and freak the thoughts the fuck out.
Either that or do it like a debate in your mind, list the pros and cons of your action, make up arguments for both sides, mostly to distract yourself and slowly focus away from the thoughs, making it seem silly, or forget the reason you wanted to do it in the first place.
Corsair175lol
Corsair175lol
no joke, I somehow did this once, I stared at a wall for about 20 mins, not moving, before suddenly moving startling the people who where watching me confused and concerned.
Corsair175lol
Corsair175lol
Hope this somewhat helps. It's not much. But it's what I got.
Sirrocco
Sirrocco
Process the suck.

In my experience, intrusive thoughts are driven by a great big pile of emotional suck sitting in the back of the mind. The mass generates pressure, and the pressure forces it into the foremind as intrusive thoughts.
Sirrocco
Sirrocco
Processing that emotional suck lowers the pressure. That reduces the intrusive thoughts... or, alternately, reduces the pressure on those thoughts to the point that they're not nearly as big a deal.
Sirrocco
Sirrocco
Everything in the mind has a reason to be there. Sometime it's broken, or twisted into shapes that are doing more harm than good, or it was evolved for a world much simpler than the one we live in now, but all of the bits are *trying* to help, even if some of them are doing it really, really badly.
Sirrocco
Sirrocco
If you can figure out what some of the bits are there for, sometimes you can figure out ways to twist them back so they work better for the life you actually have.
Sirrocco
Sirrocco
In my experience, the first and simplest way to process is just to lie down, as comfortable as you can get yourself, in the warm, quiet dark (or as close as you can get) and don't do anything, and just... let your brain think what it thinks. Don't worry about directing it, don't try to be productive, just let it spin... kind of like dreaming but you're awake.
Sirrocco
Sirrocco
Put a blanket between you and the world if it helps. (It helps me, sometimes.) If noises come out, let the noises come out.
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