Posted by fuzz54 on August 21, 2007, at 13:43:28
In reply to Re: I cannot stop obsessing, posted by blueboy on August 21, 2007, at 11:46:02
Two things that helped me to stop obsessing:
1) Thought stopping. Determine things that you don't need to think about and then when you catch yourself thinking about them yell "STOP!" in your head and think about something else. Do this over and over for as long as you need. Eventually my mind gave up and let go of the things I was obsessing about. Although it could take me a week or two for it to work when it was really bad.
2) Put on some headphones (no music) to keep you from hearing the outside world. Then try to breathe as deep and as slow as you can while only counting your heartbeats from 1 to 1000 or however high you want to go. The counting thing distracts you from the obsession since it's hard to obsess when you are focused on counting. This really helped me fall asleep at night when I was obsessing, although it could take half an hour or an hour for it to work depending on how obsessive I was.
I know what obsessing is like in general. It sucks. Hope this helps.
jake
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