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Posted by undopaminergic on April 27, 2008, at 2:45:12

In reply to Re:gret » iforgotmypassword, posted by Questionmark on April 27, 2008, at 1:15:20

Perhaps serotonergic drugs are effective against compulsive rumination on the past, but it's likely that they only resolve the compulsion, and only temporarily (until you quit the drug). Stimulants instill self-confidence and make those past events seem less threatening, but this is also temporary. The permanent solution is to carefully analyse each recurring instance of destructive thoughts until they no longer seem humiliating, or even significant. There will only be a limited number of past events that are recurrently troublesome, so you just have to defang them one by one. Possibly, some medications can help in this process - if so, it would most likely be stimulants, due to their enhancement of self-confidence. However, the medications won't do the necessary work of thought-analysis for you.


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