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Originally Posted by Talthybius
I guess it is more of the second bit. We do not know how to talk sense into someone. As someone who has had a big need for sense being talked into him, and maybe still am, I do not see how people could have helped me in the past to get out of certain thouhg patterns that I eventually did come out of.
I have this vision of the same throughts in a person reenforcing themselves as a person thinks about it more and longer. As the person obsesses about them, they get a life of their own.
Mayhe they need new thought patterns, and maybe more important, new experiences and behaviors, to be diluted away.
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I agree. Each one of us on here has their own issue that we can't seem to fix. And everyone else can simply say 'stop doing that' and it would be so easy for everyone else not to do what each one of us does.
It's obsessive thinking, and you're right, the only way to stop is to replace those thoughts with something else.