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mv edit: I guess I should add the mentally healthy tag shouldn't I?
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NacLac
"Nah, I passed my saving throw."
Fayen
I named my anxiety Logan and pretend he's some douchey guy who once broke his hand punching through drywall and has a "Bros 4 Lyfe" tattoo
Illithidbane
Ethanola
This is basically a form of narrative therapy. The modality I'm currently working with as a counsellor
WeSingLalaWhileTheDevilDoesTheChaCha
I call the Voice the Drunken Scotsman, "Laddie, yer a fockin godshite" Hey Angus, get on yer trolley, ya glekit looking wee huffy bawbag.
splatterfestival
Fuck you shoresy.
Mostlydeadpool
the real tool is the "stopping the thought from just slipping in unnoticed". all of these are great ways to do that. :)
jammer909
The voice in my head sounds like me, but it comes off smarter than me. It speaks like it's reading from a factual textbook. I have the dumb.
AsAnItalianItsDifficultTalkingOnTheWebCauseIcantUseMyHands
This is resilience! Well done guys!
TheDrunkNinja
Just make your call of the void sound like Dale Gribble, and then it can't hurt you anymore.
jshann
Great advice but seriously why do our brains do this shit? We need an upgrade. There's too many bugs
CairoLen
We need to keep evolving.
BestUsernameICouldThinkOf
DrMissAnonymous
I adore this show, a great example of having different personalities between blood siblings. Humans are wild.
se7enblessings
This show was a great study of personality types
CundingFutback
I'm totally stealing Spock Talk.
PrincessWendyB
#3 this is PURE GENIUS. I am installing my own personal Shoulder Spock IMMEDIATELY!
gingerbreadmon
My name is Geoffrey and I feel attacked :(
iamthecomet
404NoNameAvailable
#3 the thing is, I've got ADHD so there is always a chance I forgot the thing I've been doing for ten years
iamthecomet
That's some pretty serious memory loss there. I have ADHD and bipolar and, damn.
HangingOnTheEdgeOfTomorrow
Everything that should be a habit is a conscious choice I actively need to remember to do or it won't happen.
ArchMagos
I go with them just being brain self-checks, like "you should jump of that bridge." Me "no thanks" "rational thinking is a go."
parabolic000
#3 yeah, but I do forget to lock the door and sometimes leave a keychain chandelier hanging from the lock.
jtledhbg618
Which means that for you such a thought is not an anxiety thought, it's a valid concern, and Spock would give you a very different response.
jtledhbg618
Captain, it is good that you are concerned, let us verify the location of your keys together. I love you.
KawaiiTwat
I have had GAD all my life and the person telling me these things is just a shadow person of myself. Dark and bitter of everything in life..
iamthecomet
I've been sticking my toes into the pool of the shadow self. I think it's fascinating and terrifying.
fadecomic
I mean, if this was news to your therapist, frankly you need a new therapist.
rooik14
It's not that it's news, but rather that the therapist is happy they found this coping mechanism on their own because they're more likely 1/
rooik14
2/2 to keep at it that way.
JohnWickdidnothingwrong
This is a lot more effective at taking the edge off than you'd think, especially if "Smart-ass response" is your default setting.
graceinsheepsclothing
#3 I used to be plagued with these. Did I lock the door, did I turn off the coffee. Then I decided to make an effort to trust my own brain,
graceinsheepsclothing
My own eyes. For me, it really worked.
tsk92
I do a similar thing when reading written complaints from the angry public. Say them in a really nasally voice, they become hilarious.
Ribaldrie
I pretend my intrusive thoughts are coming from that animated booger in the mucinex commercials
Copperbrat
Anyone worry that if you give intrusive thoughts a name and treat them like a separate personality, they might become one? No? Just me then?
baconandmorebacon
Me and I both agree with you.
WaveMotionGum
Does seem like playing games with yourself like this could get out of hand.
disposablewords
Not any more than knowing how a friend would act is having your friend in your head. Mental models of people are common, MPD isn't.
Copperbrat
Ahh ty.
allcattywampus
I saw the TNG episode where Data crash-landed in some alien village and kept contradicting the schoolteacher's Medieval science lessons 1/2
allcattywampus
and I thought, "every classroom needs a Data"—just a calm flat voice of empirical rationality (2/2)
TheAnswerIsViolence
Those people were typically murdered for going against the status quo on our planet at least. Were they peaceful about it?
symbholic
I like the episode (though more for B-story) but imo it has a bad take on history of science, she was perfectly empirical just aristotelian.
jayman0123
It wasn't really meant to be a history of science type thing. It was meant to be a fear of the unknown thing
DocBeeblebrox
Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait. Waiiiit. You liked that ep for the B plot? The plot where (spoilers!) Troi gets promoted to commander‽‽
symbholic
Yes?! You don't?
DocBeeblebrox
Truthfully... no? I would be interested to hear what made it enjoyable for you, I like hearing other viewpoints!
symbholic
Troi was an underdeveloped char. Interesting - esp. after "Disaster" - to further look into what qualification, responsibilty in SF means.
glitchead
What do you do when your invasive voices are your father living rent free in your head for decades?
iamthecomet
Kick him in the fucking nuts
StudioC2
Tell him you are an adult and you can do things your own way. I picture Sarah in the Labyrinth looking at David Bowie saying "You have no...
StudioC2
power over me."
darthstormer
"You're a waste of space and should never have been born!" "Yeah? Well your mom didn't think so last night."
mondeca
All your other intrusive thoughts: "Ohhhhhhhhhhhh DAMN!"
savemebabyjebus
“My mums dead, asshole”. “Well, i guess thats why she didn’t move around much then”
bigbigbilly
Fucking savage
NachoPete
Mayfly10
But....the intrusive voice is part of you, so that's also your own mum? (who, to be fair, probably does think you should have been born)
darthstormer
Shut up, intrusive Opedipal Complex!
xxPaulCPxx
I also choose my Mom. Ah dang it, now I'm doing it too.
EatsBees
i did this with Imposter Syndrome. worked well enough for me
Groznek
Then comes "wait, am I even good enough to have impostor syndrome"
EatsBees
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Groznek
I was making a dumb joke. I apologise.
EatsBees
oh no no no!! i was trying to react with the holding back tears emoji and it didn't work T_T that whole train of thought is SUPER relatable
EatsBees
this is what i tried to post and now i feel bad about the misunderstanding