Posted by cycling on July 10, 2010, at 20:43:20
In reply to Re: Cycling Thoughts Lamictal/Lithium/Klonopin » cycling, posted by jade k on July 10, 2010, at 17:54:40
> **[images in your head] Are these images frightening, you're awake...like a nightmare in your head but you ARE awake? How long do they last? How do you make them stop?**
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> These may be PTSD "flashbacks". I had them. They're terrifying.
> >i mean on occasion but it doesn't bother me as much because I know its the OCD....They're just images that come and go. It's not like an ongoing nightmare. If I tell you to think about a palm tree, you get an image in your head. It's like that, but it'd be a disturbing image. The cure to OCD is not to react to these images. We all get these wierd thoughts and images in our mind, but for some reason OCD brings those disturbing thoughts to consciousness and OCDers react to these, which is a natural reaction. Thats the part that sucks about OCD. OCD varies in ALOT of different ways.
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> >use your imagination (I'd really rather not, sorry). But that's why we're all here...mental health problems that were all trying to treat.
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> True
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> >its funny because (everyone?) on here is nice, helpful, and seem "normal." It's a funny thing ain't it? We're over here wishing, hoping, begging that some drug will take away the pain of our mental state of being but yet we are still able to express ourselves in a normal way.
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> >Not always for me. Like right now I'm feeling some nasty Pristiq w/d's. I only post when I'm up to it. Sometimes I'm not. I wasn't talking about your feelings, I was talking about your expression in your writing. By your writing I cannot tell you are going through at tough time. Yes your words may say you are going through a tough time, but YOU are able to express these feelings in a coherent way which makes be believe that YOU are a good person that's just trying to get through this. This whole YOU thing will make more sense once read what I have below.
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> >I guess thats just food for thought. That "we" are not our minds.
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> >We're not? No we're not, and I'll try to explain in my opinion.
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> >If you ever want to pick up a book that I found very interesting pick up The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. His whole philosophy is that our minds is not our true selves... our minds are a simple false sense of self, or ego, as he puts it. And the more we (being as he calls it) identify with our ego or mind, the more we are feeding the ego.
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> Interesting.
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> Have you gained insight applicable to your condition(s) from it? Has it helped you?
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> The auther sounds familiar.
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> > So here we go. Lets take this for example: you say, "I hate this" There are two different entities here. There's the "I" then there's the "this." They are different. This is what this author enlightened me with. "This" is your mind, "I" is your true being. Your "I" currently is in a battle with "this" which is your mind. He says as long as you identify with "this" or your mind, you(I) will always react towards "this" or your mental state. And as well know, the more you react to your thoughts, the stronger the thoughts become. It's a cycle, if you have a thought, your react, then your brain thinks that it needs to fight. If you do this long enough, this will be called anxiety or any other mental state that manifests with thought disorders. Al of this surrounds thought disorders and our reactions towards these thought disorders. If you are able to separate yourself from your mind create false sense of self, then you become free. That is the philosophy behind essentially a soul and the mind. You "Being" This"Mind"Thoughts on this anyone?
> ~Jade
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