Anonymous wrote:It's called anxiety. Are you a woman in perimenopause? It could be induced by hormonal fluctuations.

I've been an anxiety sufferer all my life, and the cringe attacks were particularly intense when I was a teenager. But now in perimenopause, my anxiety has come back again in the form of panic attacks and insomnia. It's bad. I tried anxiety meds and they made it worse, so I prioritize my sleep (which means sleeping in), go for daily walks, listen to calming music, employ self talk to reason myself out of the worst of it, etc...

Anonymous wrote:This can be easily treated with anti anxiety meds.

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Anonymous wrote:I think of it another way, as a good thing.
To me the daily replay of something from 5 or 35 years ago just means that my brain isn’t fighting for survival and it’s using its excess processing capacity to clean up old files.

If I were facing disaster my brain wouldn’t bother showing me film from that time in HS when I unzipped in a bright room while everyone outside in the dark could see me.

Your basic needs are being met, your brain has room and bandwidth to repair corrupted file, it’s not a disorder that needs a name.

Hey, so.

I really felt giant relief at all the thoughts in this thread but this one resonated with me more ... when I'm faced with emergencies these things don't happen at all, but left alone with my thoughts they come back like ... "cleaning up old files" ... I don't think I'll forget that phrase

I'm somewhat glad to find out it's a little normal. Maybe like Ebenezer Scrooge getting re-introduced to all the stuff and regrets or other depictions of elderly people drifting back into their memories because they just have more of them and the time and space to entertain them.

Sometimes I also get reminded today in my mind that while things didn't seem wrong to me in the day, and I largely just kept going, now I look back and realize whether something was just a human mistake or if I really said something wrong. And I guess my mind just has the space to do that.

PP you replied to, when the cringe thoughts come on I acknowledged them and then direct my brain to something that really needs solving and most of the time that does it.

For the really stubborn ones I learned this amazing technique that completely overwrite the file and it will never come back again.

When you have your cringe thought think it through completely, then imagine the scene turns black and white but now it’s going to play in slow reverse, once you’ve gone back to the beginning of your memory you are going to fill the scene by adding cartoon characters, woody woodpecker, Bugs Bunny, Care Bears, whatever, now try and let the memory play out again but include your care bears and cartoon characters. The cringe memory loses all power, the file is over written and it will never bother you again.

Is this based in some psychological theory? I'm intrigued but would like to look it up to understand more.

Anonymous wrote:DAE?

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Anonymous wrote:I think of it another way, as a good thing.
To me the daily replay of something from 5 or 35 years ago just means that my brain isn’t fighting for survival and it’s using its excess processing capacity to clean up old files.

If I were facing disaster my brain wouldn’t bother showing me film from that time in HS when I unzipped in a bright room while everyone outside in the dark could see me.

Your basic needs are being met, your brain has room and bandwidth to repair corrupted file, it’s not a disorder that needs a name.

Hey, so.

I really felt giant relief at all the thoughts in this thread but this one resonated with me more ... when I'm faced with emergencies these things don't happen at all, but left alone with my thoughts they come back like ... "cleaning up old files" ... I don't think I'll forget that phrase

I'm somewhat glad to find out it's a little normal. Maybe like Ebenezer Scrooge getting re-introduced to all the stuff and regrets or other depictions of elderly people drifting back into their memories because they just have more of them and the time and space to entertain them.

Sometimes I also get reminded today in my mind that while things didn't seem wrong to me in the day, and I largely just kept going, now I look back and realize whether something was just a human mistake or if I really said something wrong. And I guess my mind just has the space to do that.

PP you replied to, when the cringe thoughts come on I acknowledged them and then direct my brain to something that really needs solving and most of the time that does it.

For the really stubborn ones I learned this amazing technique that completely overwrite the file and it will never come back again.

When you have your cringe thought think it through completely, then imagine the scene turns black and white but now it’s going to play in slow reverse, once you’ve gone back to the beginning of your memory you are going to fill the scene by adding cartoon characters, woody woodpecker, Bugs Bunny, Care Bears, whatever, now try and let the memory play out again but include your care bears and cartoon characters. The cringe memory loses all power, the file is over written and it will never bother you again.

Is this based in some psychological theory? I'm intrigued but would like to look it up to understand more.

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Anonymous wrote:I think of it another way, as a good thing.
To me the daily replay of something from 5 or 35 years ago just means that my brain isn’t fighting for survival and it’s using its excess processing capacity to clean up old files.

If I were facing disaster my brain wouldn’t bother showing me film from that time in HS when I unzipped in a bright room while everyone outside in the dark could see me.

Your basic needs are being met, your brain has room and bandwidth to repair corrupted file, it’s not a disorder that needs a name.

Hey, so.

I really felt giant relief at all the thoughts in this thread but this one resonated with me more ... when I'm faced with emergencies these things don't happen at all, but left alone with my thoughts they come back like ... "cleaning up old files" ... I don't think I'll forget that phrase

I'm somewhat glad to find out it's a little normal. Maybe like Ebenezer Scrooge getting re-introduced to all the stuff and regrets or other depictions of elderly people drifting back into their memories because they just have more of them and the time and space to entertain them.

Sometimes I also get reminded today in my mind that while things didn't seem wrong to me in the day, and I largely just kept going, now I look back and realize whether something was just a human mistake or if I really said something wrong. And I guess my mind just has the space to do that.

PP you replied to, when the cringe thoughts come on I acknowledged them and then direct my brain to something that really needs solving and most of the time that does it.

For the really stubborn ones I learned this amazing technique that completely overwrite the file and it will never come back again.

When you have your cringe thought think it through completely, then imagine the scene turns black and white but now it’s going to play in slow reverse, once you’ve gone back to the beginning of your memory you are going to fill the scene by adding cartoon characters, woody woodpecker, Bugs Bunny, Care Bears, whatever, now try and let the memory play out again but include your care bears and cartoon characters. The cringe memory loses all power, the file is over written and it will never bother you again.