How do i get rid of a bad memory about something sexually disgusting?
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if it's making this big of an impression on you you will probably never forget it
Stop posting questions about it.. the more you think about, and write about it.. the longer it will take you to forget it.
Very likely. If you can still eat food and have sex without vomiting, it's likely never to cause too much problems.
Radical acceptance! It happened, but you have the choice to deal with it or let it plague your life.
No its a passing memory like a tune that keeps playing in your head all day but very soon you forget about the tune, I'm rambling again good luck
Try not to think about it - when you do, remember that it's reality and it's something you prefer to not be involved in. Feel good about the fact that you make better decisions and your wise to do so.
Interestingly enough they are actually testing a drug that is intended to "remove" bad memories. You might try doing a web search, although a pharmacological solution seems a bit extreme.
Perhaps you could try writing about the experience and your feelings on it. While it won't erase the memory it may help you better cope with it.
If that doesn't work and you are truly disturbed by it you could try counseling. A less proven method might be hypnosis, but that's really a stretch.
You can't forget it, but over time it will become less and less prominent in your mind. It is better to face up to what you saw, deal with it, and accept it - by this I mean don't try to deny it, just admit to yourself that it is something you saw, felt disgusted by, and once you have accepted your disgust you can accept that it is a normal way to feel. Challenge feelings of guilt by asking yourself did you really do anything wrong? Hopefully the answer will be, "well no, I didn't like it, but I had to satisfy my curiosity. It is over now, and I will not kick myself about it any more."
You can talk yourself out of this (in your own head), believe, me. This technique was taught to me by a psychologist, and if you learn to rationalise it instead of trying to push it out of your mind it will become less of a problem.
I can assure you that even though you are having this image right in front of you - even when you close your eyes, it should fade over the time. Try to distract yourself and keep busy looking at nice and sweet stuff (bunnies, cute puppies, whatever makes you go ’’awww’). It worked in my case anyway… good luck!
see a doctor. get hypnotised.
Sometimes the things we see make us 'older' - you can't undo the 'knowing of it'. The brain is a marvellous thing and puts it in its rightful place in time. Trust yourself to rationalise and compartmentalise. It will never truly go away but it will never dominate your life.
The more you question about it or talk about it, the harder it will be to forget about it. Right now, you're your worst enemy.
Write it all down, no matter how hard it is, then take the notes somewhere private Ceremoniously set them on fire and as they burn imagine all those those thoughts burning away, until they burn to nothing.
Sounds silly, but give it a try as you have nothing to loose.
Good Luck
You need to talk to a Therapist who specializes in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This event does not need to scar you for life, you just need the appropriate treatment.
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you may need to talk it over with a therapist. if you are not vomiting and can still have sex then wait it out. otherwise make an appointment.
You have the power of choice - to move on from it or to let it take you over. Disgusting it may have been to see it - whatever it was - but that is all and if you get on with your life and choose not to let the movie play over and over in your mind, it will eventually fade to something less powerful.
If you really can't let go of the memory, I would recommend hypnotherapy as it may be possible that you have seen something similar before, perhaps as a baby/small child and it has left an open wound in your mind, so that when it has happened again it has become dominant.
I'm sure you have posted before about this, so please seek help other than on here. Most are sympathetic but some can be unkind.
Hope it works out.
I was abused by a relative when I was ten years old, I am 73 now and I still see that person occasionally and feel disgust at what he made me do. So I don't think you will ever forget. There is support for people in your position nowadays which there wasn't in my day, so take advantage of any help you can get to enable you to erase this from your memory. Good Luck.
well, if it is something you recently saw, it will likely fade over time. also, you might try a quick prayer, for the 'participants' and yourself, when the memory is recalled.
Peace+
how long ago? a minute? an hour? a month? if its still bothering you after a few weeks /a month or so, get some help, its your head telling you it has been upset/disturbed by what its seen and you need to work through thge issues and rationalise so it wont keep on bothering you.
Its not scared for life unless you let it, its a learning experience- just like anything else, you grow and chnge by the stuff thrown at you, not all of its good, and its often true that the more disrurbing, the greater the change for the better if you get help.
a doctor or psychiatrist / psychologis with experience in hypnosis should be able to help
get a life and forget!
Well you should not suppress it either it does not make any good but you should accept it, anyway talk to somebody about it... he/she might help you get over it. But suppressing a bad memory only makes it worse cause you have no idea when it will come up again.
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Write the memory down in full and then share it with someone. It will free it x
Interesting...What did you see?
It will gradually fade away.
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