Um. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland helps a lot. It's my favourite book. And when things get bad I just try to remember it word for word and it usually helps. And when that doesn't... well, you're going to laugh. But. Um. Prayers. Our Father, Hail Mary, etc. Along the same lines as Alice... I guess but more calming? Anyways, those are really the only things that push the bad thoughts out.
It's a little more than that. It's stuff I know well, yes. But it's stuff that's always been really important to me. Alice was the first book I learned to read and I've always loved it. And prayer just... it's peaceful. There's something about it that's soothing. That's what makes them different than reciting school things or ingredients or people's names or things.
The only organic method is to turn your mind elsewhere to keep it from chewing over that one thing you want to get over--have your mind focus on your body (so do something physical--and, yes, I know what you're thinking), do the prayer/meditation/recitations/etc. thing. That, and if there's a memory you're particularly trying to repress, work hard to associate new, better memories with the people/places/things that would ordinarily trigger a descent back into the thing you're trying to forget.
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But it's basically something you know well sort of droning it all out?
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It's a little more than that. It's stuff I know well, yes. But it's stuff that's always been really important to me. Alice was the first book I learned to read and I've always loved it. And prayer just... it's peaceful. There's something about it that's soothing. That's what makes them different than reciting school things or ingredients or people's names or things.
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And noted.
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I don't recommended drinking until you forget everything though, because it just comes back the next day accompanied with a headache.
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Thanks.
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