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[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Haven't tried this method yet, but what the heck. You snooze you lose.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I did this when I was a teenager and it was surprisingly effective at helping me get out of a depressive period.

Instead of barking I would drown out the negative with a small, pre-thought up, positive sentence about myself. When I caught the negative thoughts, I'd drown them out with it in my head.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Drown that which effects our mental state. Got it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Alcohol works on both external aaaand internal wounds

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It worked for God

[–] funkless_eck 5 points 5 months ago

i do it with little songs or like jazz scatting (lol).

But it doesn't help for nighttime lying in bed (especially if my partner is asleep) - so for that I use the method where you consciously check in and stop moving and relax each muscle in your body as granulary as you can - toes, heels, tops of feet, ankles, calves... all the way up to head.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago (2 children)

People think I'm weird because I meow randomly but I am actually weird because I meow to interrupt thoughts I don't wanna have

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I whish i would just meow... Im just screaming randomly

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I randomly start singing swear words, but I've learned to do it quietly

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I just start to curse ._.

[–] merc 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] beastlykings 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thank you. My favorite thing, can never not think of it

[–] merc 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

All of Hyperbole and a Half was great.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I hope the author's doing okay. From what I understand she was struggling with some pretty severe depression, which is why she stopped posting.

[–] merc 10 points 5 months ago

I think she's just smart enough to not live her life in the public eye. Her Wikipedia entry shows she pops up every once in a while, most recently in 2020.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allie_Brosh

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

If they can’t handle me at my worst (insufferable), then they don’t deserve me at my best (tolerable)

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't get how someone can worry about this when they're in a relationship. There's clearly nothing that wrong with them if they have living proof of the opposite standing right there.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

A love relationship is different from a work relationship or a friendship. They require different skills, functions and have different stakes.