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Originally Posted by mcl6136
I'm going to ask again....why would any thoughts be unwanted? I mean...they might not be liked; they might be frightening, but couldn't they be transformed into something intriguing, useful, even illuminating in the end?
Simply banishing them strikes me as the most unproductive approach of all!
I'm simply asking here.....
Someone told me once: the facts are always friendly. I remembered that once when at a doctor's office receivinig a bad diagnosis. Isn't it better to know? I didn't like what I heard but stopping that unwanted piece of information wasn't an option.
I'll stop now. I'm having a nervous ridiculous day but I do wonder....
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I can tell you that my irrational thoughts of worst case scenarios always happening to me and my family are very unwanted. Who, wants to think about stuff like that? I don't see a problem with not wanting to have those thoughts. As a matter of fact that are cripplying my life and my thearpy. So, to get rid of those thoughts are going to be what helps me. Now, I can see where we want to explore the roots of those thoughts, but to keep having them seems more harmful than helpful.
I think facts are different... having a bad dagnosis you don't want to hear, but it is a fact. The unwanted thoughts of, you won't' survive, or you can't handle this are the thoughts you don't want. Of course this is all imo.