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Originally Posted by spacecase
It's something I recently noticed about myself. I can convince myself of anything. For example, I'll be walking my dog and for whatever reason I'll consider the possibility that a cougar could be lurking in the shadows (... in central Illinois, heh...) just waiting to pounce on me, and then I suddenly believe that this really WILL happen and I rush home as fast as I can.
Or I'll be with my friends and they'll tease me in a friendly manner, and the thought pops into my head that they could actually think horrible of me, and then I think they really do and I began hating them for thinking of me that way.
It's so weird and difficult to explain. Sometimes though, I can't decide if, when in situations like these, my paranoia is justified or if I'm being rediculous. Once I make myslef believe something I can't stop obsessing over it. The situation I described above ( with my friends) happens quite frequently. We click so well sometimes and I often have all the love in the world for them, but other times I for some little reason or no reason at all, I think that it's all fake and they're really conspiring behind my back or something. It's so frustrating.
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my therapist calls this the power of suggestion. my therapist is a hypno therapist she says Some peoples brains are more suseptible to the power of suggestion and others arent. like people who are hypnotized. if they are not the least suseptible they cant be guided to relax and go into deep trance states. some people who are go under hypnosis in a snap. some people can suggest to their self something is going to happen and end up believing it, sometimes even to the point where their bodys start acting on that suggestion. another example my therapist used was having head lice. she asked me if I had ever had them and just that question made me start wanting to itch my head and I wondered for days if the people I was coming in contact with had lice and I had my partner check my hair every day after work. I didnt have lice but just the idea of it made me itchy and anxious about it.
