Stopping getting lost in self-referential internal monologues

I get paralysed by this. I don’t know how to begin to deconstruct it, probably through meditation. It happens when I am unsure and try to discern what is truth. I hit a Godelian statement, which can only be answered from the meta level. It is like a feedback loop between a microphone and a speaker. It leads to mental exhaustion as well as paralysis. I’m tired of it :frowning:

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Man, you seem to be overthinking things. I don’t know you and you may have always been this way, but in my case this was due to the illness.

Are you on medication? Can you talk to your pdoc about your racing thoughts and maybe get a higher dose? The side effects are a pain, but worth it to have a calm mind.

I trained away my internal voices by listening to chainsaws sounds very loud through headphones using YouTube for half an hour per day. I had a theory that it would retrain the hearing centers in my brain, and it worked. Not completely cured of the voices but they’re down by 90%.

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