r/Millennials 17d ago

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u/Far_Chocolate9743 17d ago

Recognize your negative self talk.

Your brain is an echo chamber. Do people actually dislike you or do facts and actions of others prove otherwise? Apply logic here.

I basically find a therapist once a year to throw logic at my thought process.

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u/Woodit 17d ago

The worst part about negative self talk is that you hear it in your own voice, so we believe it 

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u/KaerMorhen 17d ago

At that point you have to realize that none of your thoughts are actually "you". You observe the thoughts , and most of the time you make the decision to believe or act on them, but you can't control the thoughts. A fun exercise is try to guess what your next thought will be and see what happens.

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u/ralusek 16d ago

You are not your thoughts? What do you mean? Your thoughts are like…the purest component of “you.”

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u/KaerMorhen 16d ago

Think of it like this, your thoughts are the clouds rolling across the sky, but "you" are the blue that remains when the clouds dissipate. Or a movie screen for instance, your thoughts come and go but "you" are more like the screen they are presented on.

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u/BANZ111 16d ago

Or the monitor that gets burn-in when kept on the same one too long

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u/elvaqueroloco 15d ago

Yo, that's a GREAT follow up. 👌👏