The material presented
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information, ideas, feelings, problems and solutions on a personal
level.
Thank you all for all of the great suggestions on my post yesterday. They were all so helpful and just to see in black and white that I am not the only person to ever go thru this or feel this way. That there are things I can do to help myself. I am going to print that post and replies out so I can continue to use them. Thank you all...
So glad you have a new set of tools. My rule is "whatever works". LOL
Our addiction to obsessing over them can be just as powerful as their addiction in my opinion. One way of thinking about it is that any behavior you are trying to get rid of, has to be replaced with something else.
I have no luck just turning off the spinning thoughts, but I can replace them with meditation, or reading, or concentrating on something that I do. That does tend to work.
Thanks for sharing and I am glad some of the suggestions are working for you!
Take care of you!
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"Good judgement comes from experience... experience comes from bad judgement" - unknown