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Need some help/advice
9 years ago
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How does one make the left brain shut the fuck up? I'm a very detail and fact oriented person. My left brain is so overactive that I think I might have two left brains. That is now causing me problems for several reasons.
1. It gives me anxiety. I dwell on things. A lot. If there's a problem in my life, I tend to beat it to death in my mind, giving me no peace and causing me to have insomnia at night and distraction in the day.
2. It stunts my creativity. My left brain is like a noisy room. I'm now getting well enough where I feel I can get back to the requests for stories I've gotten, but all this medical shit on top of my financial issues on top of school starting again on top of getting a new roommate on top of a million other little things gives me no room to be creative. It's just endless thoughts about endless issues, most of which are out of my ability to control anyways, so why bother stressing? I just can't stop it.
3. It makes me sound whiny. The fact that my brain is constantly chewing all this mental cud means that all my issues tend to come up in conversation because they're literally the only thing on my mind. It's a bit of a mood killer to have someone talk about nothing but their problems, and it's very off-putting to most people.
I see a therapist weekly, but he's trying to help me work through this problem logically. Being a logical person, you'd think that would be the best approach, but it isn't. It's fighting fire with fire, and as much as that phrase is interesting, throwing fire on fire just makes a bigger damn fire. I need to attack this from a new angle, but there's no real angle I can think of. FA is a site that's full of artists, and art comes fro the right brain, the part I want to have a bit more of a voice. I figure that if anyone knows how to get their mental nags to shut up, it's people who are artistically inclined. So I now leave it to anyone who reads this to give me some advice. I'm open to all suggestions...except heroin. Heroin bad.
*Note* I did try googling, but most of what I saw either did what my therapist is doing or came from a standpoint of the left brain being a bad thing. It's not a bad thing, it's what lets me science. Science is good, and true, and good. I just want to make lefty quiet down and go to sleep, not kill him.
1. It gives me anxiety. I dwell on things. A lot. If there's a problem in my life, I tend to beat it to death in my mind, giving me no peace and causing me to have insomnia at night and distraction in the day.
2. It stunts my creativity. My left brain is like a noisy room. I'm now getting well enough where I feel I can get back to the requests for stories I've gotten, but all this medical shit on top of my financial issues on top of school starting again on top of getting a new roommate on top of a million other little things gives me no room to be creative. It's just endless thoughts about endless issues, most of which are out of my ability to control anyways, so why bother stressing? I just can't stop it.
3. It makes me sound whiny. The fact that my brain is constantly chewing all this mental cud means that all my issues tend to come up in conversation because they're literally the only thing on my mind. It's a bit of a mood killer to have someone talk about nothing but their problems, and it's very off-putting to most people.
I see a therapist weekly, but he's trying to help me work through this problem logically. Being a logical person, you'd think that would be the best approach, but it isn't. It's fighting fire with fire, and as much as that phrase is interesting, throwing fire on fire just makes a bigger damn fire. I need to attack this from a new angle, but there's no real angle I can think of. FA is a site that's full of artists, and art comes fro the right brain, the part I want to have a bit more of a voice. I figure that if anyone knows how to get their mental nags to shut up, it's people who are artistically inclined. So I now leave it to anyone who reads this to give me some advice. I'm open to all suggestions...except heroin. Heroin bad.
*Note* I did try googling, but most of what I saw either did what my therapist is doing or came from a standpoint of the left brain being a bad thing. It's not a bad thing, it's what lets me science. Science is good, and true, and good. I just want to make lefty quiet down and go to sleep, not kill him.
There was comic I saw on tumblr that basically is a more creative way of fighting it, and it is to essentially become a contractual to your own thoughts and anxieties. The fake it till you make it