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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-05-17 03:49 pm

[ SECRET POST #3056 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3056 ⌋

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Re: sorry sorry sorry

(Anonymous) 2015-05-17 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
You don't focus at all, that's the whole point. You notice. You acknowledge. You don't dwell, and you don't judge.

When you have anxious, obsessive, intrusive thoughts etc., then one of the problems with them is that once you get that thought you fixate on it, drag it out and extrapolate and make everything worse. You do that because you don't just see it as a thought, you add in value judgements about yourself as a person for having the thought.

Ignoring is counterproductive, because by telling your mind not to think about something you're placing all its focus onto that thing. Even if you've never suffered from any kind of mental health issue, I'm sure there have been times when you've tried not to think about something only to then notice it, or tangential references to it, absolutely everywhere. Notice the thought, don't fuel it, and it'll drift away to be replaced by something else -- as thoughts do, naturally, when you don't have issues that disrupt that pattern -- without escalating the anxiety.

I'm sorry if that's not logical enough for you.