How do you deal with dark thoughts?

Woke_Wacker · 2024-04-01T14:10:23+00:00

Embrace them. They are part of you and what makes you human. Accept they are there and carry on. Just because you have dark thoughts, does not mean you possess no refining and positive traits.

Geselshaft · 2024-04-01T15:24:56+00:00

They're fun, like watching a horror movie.

Just something to experience. Like a good weed high or herpes.

mrmensplights · 2024-04-01T19:01:21+00:00

Focus on eating well, sleeping well, drinking lots of water, and getting exercise. Be mindful of how things affect you and cut the daily habit of consuming content that makes you feel angry or powerless. Focus your daily activities on things you can control that have a direct impact on your life, your family, friends, or local community. Take time to think about the things in life you can be grateful for and make an attempt to revisit those things whenever you feel your thinking slipping into a negative mode in order to break the learned behavior of leaning into the dark thoughts.

I don't think there is any great epiphany. Keeping the darkness at bay is probably mostly physiology and habit.

DeddestNash · 2024-04-01T13:20:16+00:00

Are you thoughts of self harming or harming anyone else is the important question here? I don't judge I just want to know.

I'd like to know what type of thoughts exactly you are having.

It might be a good idea to try and see if you could have a mental disorder that can be diagnosed or perhaps you have gotten yourself stuck in a depression rut and some lifestyle issues are present??

DoctorStorm · 2024-04-01T23:25:52+00:00

Let them simmer.

If you know that you are angry, poisonous, and toxic, then just step away for a moment, get some food in you, get some sleep, get a good shit/shower/shave, and repeat for a couple of days.

If your mind is made up, it will still be made up after 72 hours. If you're just wallowing around in your own pig shit and need a moment to fuck around and repair some drywall and prop yourself back up, then you'll thank yourself for taking that goddamn weekend off.

Litmus test: if you're enough of an asshole to call your mother a cunt and take a solid right hook from the old man, you should probably chew some wheat grass and calm the fuck down, and take the goddamn weekend off.

evilrobbob · 2024-04-01T12:39:37+00:00

What kind of dark thoughts? Depression or something else?

Suspicious_Factor625 · 2024-04-01T15:06:19+00:00

I let them go, so they blend with every other random thoughts I have. When it comes to suicidal ones, it helps for me to talk with my best friend about them. Really helps, even better is going to psychotherapist if you can afford one.

JACSliver · 2024-04-01T23:35:45+00:00

Taking deep breaths.

1Occ · 2024-04-02T16:15:35+00:00

I don't.

youaloserbitch · 2024-04-11T22:50:00+00:00

I let them fuel me

Mobile_Lumpy · 2024-04-01T16:35:59+00:00

I don't. I just tolerate them. Maybe one day they win, I dunno.

Title	How do you deal with dark thoughts?
Author	Loud_Prompt_8880
Upvotes	9
Comments	17
Date	April 1, 2024 12:31 PM UTC (2 years ago)
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