Does anyone else script/simulate future conversations in their head?

where_to_begin · Aug 13, 2015, 10:21 PM

I do this from time to time.

Lemonpledge · Aug 14, 2015, 06:45 AM

I do this all the time and get very upset when people interrupt . And it is weird because when I do this I picture (mostly my t ) him and what he is wearing etc and our next session he will be wearing that. And I am still freaked out about it and forget everything I went over in my head.

AnxietyMaster · Aug 14, 2015, 06:15 PM

Wait... This isn't normal?!?! I sometimes interview people to find out what the response is, to expect what they are going to say. Ex: I set a scenario for my nurse friend to find out what my gastros. response to my med change would be. I anticipate conversations I am going to have with people, sometimes months out. I will write down possible outcomes, and predict... I thought everyone does this...

maxie154 · Aug 14, 2015, 10:09 PM

Fantastic topic! Something I often ask myself. Yes, I definitely simulate future conversations in my head as well. I feel it is a form of visualization for myself, so I try to always keep the conversation outcome on the positive side. Similar to how some researchers say if you visualize yourself doing well on an exam or visualize yourself successfully completing jumpshots in basketball, I'd like to think that visualizing positive conversations can increase such an outcome.

maruf · Aug 15, 2015, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by blind archer

Well I do have "neurotic perfectionism" so there might be but along with that I have a kind of a language disorder that causes me to take too long to form words and sentences. It might seem like that in my case the habit might be useful but it's not.

Also in my case, takes long to form an answer, still I always feel that my answer was not perfect, so the conversation keeps being staged inside my head for some irritably long period.

maruf · Aug 15, 2015, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by introspectiveme

More than just conversations, I simulate full blown scenarios in my head, multiple times trying to gauge every possible outcome, I think it's a combination of my anxiety and OCD like tendencies.

I am such a perfectionist, that I don't even try unless I know for sure that I will succeed.

it's odd how I premeditate so much when it comes to social situations, but not when it comes to other things like exams, where I usually show up without much preparation and under perform because of it.

hugs. I'm just like you.

BluGangsta · Aug 16, 2015, 08:51 PM

All the time. It's like I'm afraid of saying the wrong thing. I'm afraid of embarrassing myself.

OneInBillions · Aug 17, 2015, 02:45 AM

I do this ALL THE TIME. I'll think of something that someone might ask me, and I go over and over what I'll say in response. Usually the question never comes up and I feel kind of disappointed, having come up with this whole long thing in my head that proved entirely useless.

Hoonoo · Aug 17, 2015, 11:13 PM

I'll be running along the trail and someone going the other way will pass. Suddenly I make up some insult they'd have said to me and I start scripting answers.

Aug 18, 2015, 04:29 AM

not usually.

though recently i was told someone was coming round (with the same name as someone who has really hurt me in the past)

so i spent weeks practicing what i was going to say to her, and how i was going to make it seem friendly.

anyway the day came and it was someone else with that name.

but the practice still payed off

loophole · Aug 27, 2015, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by OneInBillions

I do this ALL THE TIME. I'll think of something that someone might ask me, and I go over and over what I'll say in response. Usually the question never comes up and I feel kind of disappointed, having come up with this whole long thing in my head that proved entirely useless.

This a 1000 times over

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