• LemmysMum@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    We don’t always get what we want, that’s life. It’s how you handle the things you don’t control that defines you.

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      1 year ago

      What does that have to do with what I said or your claim that there are no such things as intrusive thoughts?

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        How you handle intrusive thoughts is no different to handling any other thought you have, wanted or unwanted, good or bad, if you are going to get it anyway and you can’t change the fact they exist how does defining them otherwise in the context of understanding how to not let them affect you provide any benefit?

        I would argue that my way of thinking must be correct for this task because I am obviously not afflicted in the same way by my thoughts that I feel I need to define the bad subconscious ones as ‘intrusive’. They haven’t intruded on my consciousness, my consciousness found them.

        It’s a perspective that removes a significant amount of emotional power from ‘intrusive thoughts’.

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          I think you need to make up your mind whether intrusive thoughts are a thing or not, because you start your post with talking about how to handle intrusive thoughts, then you go on to say they aren’t a thing.

          It’s a perspective that doesn’t make sense is what it is.

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              You in the beginning:

              I’m sorry if this sounds callous but I utterly disregard your notion with predjudice.

              They aren’t intrusive thoughts, they’re just your thoughts, stop being afraid of thinking.

              You one post ago:

              I would argue that my way of thinking must be correct for this task because I am obviously not afflicted in the same way by my thoughts that I feel I need to define the bad subconscious ones as ‘intrusive’. They haven’t intruded on my consciousness, my consciousness found them.

              You this post:

              Intrusive thoughts are real

              Again- make up your mind.

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                Your incapacity to grasp my understanding is not a lack of understanding on my part.

                That sentence you quoted is missing some of it, no wonder you didn’t get it’s meaning you only read half of one sentence out of a two sentence cohesive statement and a link to reference further learning.