how to make yourself stop thinking

i think way too much
and its usually very negative and destructive

i'm better at detecting when i start getting like this, so i can stop hurting myself mentally and sometimes physically
but its so hard to stop thinking
i try to distract myself but that doesnt really help


so how the fuck do you turn your brain off from a spiral of thoughtss??

 

Oh I don't know, wish I did, I'm the exact same way. For me it's been like that since as long as I can remember. I have noticed that when i get out and do something productive I'm a little better about it.

 

HST took one way out... not sure if you want to try it.

 

hey pavel!

ya.....sure thats an option

but not right now.

 

Yeah, pleasedon't try that...

 

Exercise. When I exercise my thought patterns regress to near neanderthal levels.

 

what is HST?

 

Hunter S. Thompson....not sure what the S stands for.

 

start watching tv

 

If you stop listening to yur head eventually it will stop talking.

 

When I find myself doing this I have to tell myself to stop it. I mentally try to focus on one thing and force myself to think of only that, like an object. Nothing moving. It took a while to train myself to do that but it actually does work.

Another thing I do is after I've realized I'm not getting anywhere with my thoughts I then tell myself to knock it off because I'm waisting too much energy on it. Eventually whatever it is will work itself out. It doesn't mean I don't go back to the thought but at least i've had a break from it. Maybe then I'll have some direction.

 

why do so many people like hunter s thompson on these forums?

 

Oh, thanks. The funny thing about the 'efficiency' of initials is that, if someone doesn't know what they stand for, it takes more than the initial effort of writing out the actual words to explain it.

 

The most effective way to stop thinking is to have your brain removed.

 

Yeah but then people would look at me while I just sat there and drooled. I wouldn't get much done around the house either.

 

I believe that one cannot think too much. We all get frustrated and have destructive thoughts at time, but the key is to take inventory of these thoughts and why you might be thinking those things and not get frustrated when an immediate answer doesn't present itself. It also helps to have someone that you can confide in and share those thoughts with - let em' out and have someone else think on them with you.

 

But without a brain, none of that would matter

 

It would to the people who depend on me.

 

But without a brain, you wouldnt care about what they thought either....... this is actually making me think about having brain removal surgery......

 

LOL!!!