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Hmm, please correct me if I’m wrong, but from a quick Look I don’t think they found lasting (3 month) effects using this thought suppression approach? To show lasting effects you would have compare the (pre to post) change in outcomes for the intervention group to the (pre to
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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be
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This is important because a primary treatment for anxiety is exposure therapy, which is the polar opposite of this approach.
In fact, the key guidance is not to actively suppress the negative thoughts, simply observe them and let them flow.
Does the paper evaluate results
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to me, it seems plainly obvious that people would benefit greatly from reducing stress and anxiety by any means necessary
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I’m curious if this is closer to “fake ‘til you make it” or zen and the subtle art of not giving an F.
Like, can you just “pretend” something doesn’t matter so much that it doesn’t matter?
I’ve experienced similar phenomena in day to day emotions. Like accepting sports team
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How is this news? I have learned in the early 90ies in Clinical Psychology lectures in Berlin, that rumination causes OCD - which is close to the anxiety/depression complex. PTSD is just a subset. In meditation this is practiced for some thousand years.
Yeah addressing negative thoughts often reinforce them creating a negative feedback loop.
What you focus on grows.
It makes complete sense.
Often, ruminating exasperates the problems.
Power of Suggestion is real.
Often, getting OUT of our own head is the cure.
Focusing outward, on others, etc is the cure.
(As a GenXer, what I just typed was common sense)
is why talk therapy fails so often. For many people, talking and ruminating is the exact opposite of healing.
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The phrase "what if everything works out/goes well" has changed my life
While distancing can provide temporary relief, research shows our bodies store trauma physiologically. The work of James Hollis & others demonstrates that mindful processing—not dwelling, but gradually understanding & accepting—often leads to deeper healing in the long term.
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Learning how to prioritise you list of “worries” will eventually show you most of them are either about getting things done, or issues you dont control and can do nothing about.
Eventually this will clear manymof them out and less new will stick to you.
Interesting, I wonder if this validates the idea that therapy sometimes does more bad than good because you end up ruminating on bad thoughts
Yes distancing oneself fromm
one's thoughts is actually a technique used in cognitive therapy. "Cognitive defusion" is what it's called.
Selective suppression is useful.
Avoidance causes problems.
this reminds me of research I read about art therapy for kids. when kids were asked to draw the trauma, they got more upset (understandably). when asked to draw happy pictures, they felt better.
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Glad we made this important breakthrough. I used to tell my friends to dwell on their problems to feel better.
This is such an interesting perspective! I’ve always felt like I need to address every worry, but this makes me think differently. Maybe not every thought deserves my energy!
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Only surprising if you haven’t been to Church.
“Cast your cares on the Lord for He cares for you.”
Cool. Now I just have to lighten up on myself. Sometimes easier said than done, right?
Does it depend if they are tractable?
Change what we can, dismiss what we can't?
That's good to hear. I have an old school British mentality of keeping the thought locked away until I absolutely need to share it.
Worked for me so far.
Cultivate indifference.
This negative trait, when balanced, allows you to clearly distinguish situations that are detrimental to your well-being from those replenishing situations that serve you.
This trait in rejected because of the negative connotations attached to it.
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This is because anxiety, depression, and trauma are all caused by the same thing
PERCEIVED helplessness
What matters is how the person perceives themselves. If they are constantly evaluating negative feelings, anxiety, their issues, etc.
Then they are constantly forcing
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I think therapy needs to be investigated as a major cause of mental health issues for this reason.
For many, therapy creates issues where there are none.
Alderian theory addresses this clearly in a way that makes a lot of sense. The current theoretical basis for treating mental illness is misguided.
It has to be misguided. More people are in therapy than ever and mental illness appears to be getting worse by almost every metric.
This is so fascinating. I suppose letting go of the worry frees up mental space and creates tool for clarity, peace and even resilience to a certain extent.
Journaling can be tedious.
Recognizing patterns takes months, and it's nearly impossible to sift through past entries.
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Stoic men have the right idea, and are probably more content with their lives than any other group
"Don't think about it and it will go away," as we used to say in ye olden dayes.
This seems like an obvious, common-sense insight.
Don't dwell on your problems and fears and you'll feel better.
Have been practicing this for last 15 years on my own. People missunderstand ”positive thinking” and ridicule it as naive. It is a powerful tool for inner peace, focus and pressence, a kess complicated life makes room for more of “me”. But it requires practice to become
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I strongly agree with this based on personal experience. After my father passed away from a heart attack, I developed PTSD and found it difficult to handle any health related news, especially about heart conditions or negativity. Over time, I actively blocked out those triggers
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Interesting. Not every thought is a call to action.
Some are just noise.
I feel like I deserve reparations for all the abuse I took from psychologists and academics during which time I freed 60,000 people from homelessness by accepting this as self-evident truth in 1995.
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Hmm... blocking out anxieties, you say? Intriguing... Worth a shot, I suppose. Selective focus... Mindful practice... Onward and upward!
There is no requirement to rehash trauma.
Work on behaving the way you want.
By talking about trauma it causes more trauma.
This is how psychiatrists and psychologists get paid. Keep you in the trauma cycle.
This is not all that surprising! We have more control over our thoughts and attention than we often realize.
this is exactly why i stopped watching the news
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Right effort on the noble eightfold path baby. Focus on that which is wholesome, and discard that which is unwholesome. Or put another way, where your attention goes, your energy flows.
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Yes. It’s interesting how it’s in our nature, more for some of us than others, to not ignore worries, as though we must be diligent worriers.
How do we square that with the ironic thought suppression effects seen in the work from Wegner and his colleagues?
Not every thought deserves a spotlight.
Train your mind to switch channels, not spiral.
So by extension, cutting off toxic people, even family members and friends, will make us feel better?
chronically ill people were told this by therapists for a long time. then Covid hit, and we realized all of our worries were entirely accurate and reasonable the whole time and that therapists were doing us a disservice by training us to ignore them.