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Originally Posted by Fool Zero
Can you look for yourself and see whether you really do want to have sex with these random people? I was thinking that if you found you actually didn't, that might make it a little easier to shrug off the voice -- like, what's it talking about, anyway?
By any chance, does trying not to think of sex turn out for you anything like trying not to think of a white elephant used to turn out for me? Come to think of it, trying not to think about sex did work a whole lot like that for me too, except that I didn't usually try very hard not to think about sex, so I only thought about it for as long as I did.
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Thank you for the wonderful advice, Fool Zero! Whenever these ridiculous thoughts come into my mind I always say to myself "No, thats no true. I would never want to do that!" Sometimes this seems to help, but others times the thoughts are racing so fast that I can barely keep them under control. I also have a
very visual mind (its a gift and a curse!) The things my mind is telling me, I am sometimes able to see them taking place in my mind. I have learned little tricks here and there to keep this visual process under control, but when my mind starts racing it gets a little difficult.
I have heard of this "White Elephant" saying before, although the one I read about was "Dont Think of the Red Ball!" and what do you do when you are not trying to think of the red ball? You think of the stinking, red ball! Just like you Fool Zero, I eventually got tired of playing this game. It was like "Oh, here comes this little, 'Dont Think of This Game.'" It eventually gets very tiresome, although sometimes out of the blue this game still gets to me.