I don't deal very well. But when I am able to deal better than usual, I look at my mind like a separate thing, like my mind is just this machine that is my tool and it's always working and thinking and throwing things out there. Some of the thoughts it gives me are useful, some are very strange -- it's not me thinking the thoughts, it's just my mind doing its thing. Oh well, this is what I have to work with. Trying not to get enmeshed in the thoughts. Trying to be OK with them as they happen. Well.. it's not easy.