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- Does everyone have internal monologue? Google results aren’t clear about this, it seems everyone does but at varying degrees. - I’m personally overriding min

- Does everyone have internal monologue? Google results aren’t clear about this, it seems everyone does but at varying degrees. - I’m personally overriding mine with podcasts, because my thoughts are extremely dark. The only place where I can channel my thoughts positively is when interacting with people and at work, since I have tasks to do. Better not let that mind wander ;) (I’m joking but many people know how much past experiences can haunt — I miss when I was 15 and able to dream about an imaginary world where we’d invent AI and how we’d organize society about it).

krageon 6y ago
> Does everyone have internal monologue? No, I think in pictures, smells and shapes. > my thoughts are extremely dark If you have harmful thought loops that give you problems in daily life, that's something to seek therapy for.
- laurent92 6y ago
  Therapy can only explain things, not solve them. I’m a man. A man can be dead in a ditch, he won’t get help. A woman or a dog would. Such is life. Can’t change that. I have been to about 200 therapy sessions of 5 different psychologists. Cost me thousands. But people don’t offer their nice side to men. Can’t change that. Not many other ways than silencing your internal monologue to shut up the frustration. We are supposed to take all of them, together, and not ask. I do have negative thoughts.
  - chillwaves 6y ago
    There are certainly men who have benefited from therapy.
  - krageon 6y ago
    Of course it can solve them. If none of your therapists offered you tools to help you get out of a web of thoughts that you suffer under, that is on them. Of course, if it is your own choice then it is on you :) For what it's worth, what you're talking about just isn't my experience at all. Perhaps it is your perception, and how that impacts the world around you (both what you see and how people respond to you). It's really no different than reading about a car and seeing that car in traffic a hundred times. You see what you focus on - in this case you're focusing on whatever it is you're seeing here and therefore you see it everywhere. That doesn't make it true.

krageon 6y ago

> Does everyone have internal monologue? No, I think in pictures, smells and shapes. > my thoughts are extremely dark If you have harmful thought loops that give you problems in daily life, that's something to seek therapy for.

laurent92 6y ago
Therapy can only explain things, not solve them. I’m a man. A man can be dead in a ditch, he won’t get help. A woman or a dog would. Such is life. Can’t change that. I have been to about 200 therapy sessions of 5 different psychologists. Cost me thousands. But people don’t offer their nice side to men. Can’t change that. Not many other ways than silencing your internal monologue to shut up the frustration. We are supposed to take all of them, together, and not ask. I do have negative thoughts.
- chillwaves 6y ago
  There are certainly men who have benefited from therapy.
- krageon 6y ago
  Of course it can solve them. If none of your therapists offered you tools to help you get out of a web of thoughts that you suffer under, that is on them. Of course, if it is your own choice then it is on you :) For what it's worth, what you're talking about just isn't my experience at all. Perhaps it is your perception, and how that impacts the world around you (both what you see and how people respond to you). It's really no different than reading about a car and seeing that car in traffic a hundred times. You see what you focus on - in this case you're focusing on whatever it is you're seeing here and therefore you see it everywhere. That doesn't make it true.