Posted by Larry Hoover on May 28, 2005, at 8:19:11
In reply to Re: Larry, am I in an altered state?, posted by Deneb on May 27, 2005, at 23:43:49
> You wrote:
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> >One way to view those altered states, with respect to finding solutions, is to consider them to be places you don't want to go. Like there are neighbourhoods in big cities you just don't want to enter. Recognizing the route you might take to get to one of those neighbourhoods (states of mind), you begin to see when you've begun such a journey. You can intervene. Change the route. Change where you end up.
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> I want to be normal again. How do I do that?I certainly had the perception that as this conversation went on, you started to take on the characteristics of the defiant fearless and helpless state. It may seem like a contradition, to have all those three descriptors be true simultaneously, but ultimately, IMHO, it is a feeling of helplessness/fear of it that drives you.
Getting you back to feeling normal is probably a harder task than keeping you from getting to that altered state in the first place.
Medication can be used p.r.n. (as needed), to suppress the altered conciousness, but you'd have to have some insight into your transition to be able to pull that off, without using the meds inappropriately.
I think the best way is to get some counselling, some real goal-directed CBT or DBT counselling, and learn the skills needed to guide your mind where you would rather have it go. And, meds. I know you don't want that, but the doses aren't necessarily huge or anything.
Lar
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