I keep remembering embarrassing stuff I did when I was psychotic. I don’t like that.
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I don’t know that there is a healthy way to erase bad memories. Ect may be able to fade bad memories but I think you risk affecting your other memories as well. I wouldn’t recommend it. I don’t believe that there is an easy way to selectively cut out your bad memories from your good.
Here is an article that might be useful. It talks about identifying triggers and other things.
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I don’t know how to erase them. I just apologized to people affected by my behavior.
I guess you just gotta come to peace with your embarrassing memories and apologize to anyone you hurt.
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EMDR (eye movement desensitation reprocessing) seems to work for me (I do it myself, without a therapist).
-Albert.
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I did stupid stuff for 9 years. The reason I was psychotic was because I couldn’t accept Clozapine and kept on changing medications.
It was very embarrassing indeed.
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They say Propranolol helps.
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Ive had loads of “evils” off people from the past, when i was in psychosis. Frankly - i was an arsehole and pissed off ALOT of people when i was prodromal and psychotic.
Ive apologised to some of them - but there comes a time when you just got to forget about it and move on. People dont always believe me, when i say its because i wasnt medicated properly.
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Yes, but it says that it is mostly for stopping the fear response, not so much from actually recalling the memory.
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That happened to me too, two of my friends don’t believe me that its bcz I wasn’t on meds, we don’t talk anymore.
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EMDR is a technique for trauma no?
Yes. It is supposed to help diffuse the emotional charge of traumatic memories. Thus it may help diffuse the emotional charge of embarrassing memories, even though they fall short of being classified as traumatic.
-Albert.
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That is true 15
Honestly? I do 2 things: vent about it here on the forum, and try to play it off as a joke in real life
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Ask will Smith 
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Keep busy doing things requiring memory. Past things don’t occur to me anymore since Ive started working, but they did when I was sitting at home doing nothing.
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I never did anything crazy, just homeless a lot, which is embarrassing. It’s embarrassing to have menstrual periods when you’re homeless and can’t always change your clothes.
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I’ve done some embarrassing stuff before. I look back on it and realize I was completely out to lunch. I just tell myself I was psychotic and laugh at myself.
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Do things that are more embarrassing now and then those embarrassing moments in the past won’t seem so bad in comparison.
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lol.
That’s kind of like the “If you have a pain in your arm, hit yourself in the head with a hammer” approach , eh 77nick77?
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A+ advice 
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