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04 Mar 2012, 7:08 pm

I find petting a kitty helps.



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04 Mar 2012, 7:12 pm

Unexpected blows to the head work for me.



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04 Mar 2012, 7:16 pm

It keeps you out of that 'place'.

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04 Mar 2012, 7:42 pm

Tuttle wrote:
I find petting a kitty helps.


My cat is great stress relief, I just wish he would let me pet him as much as I would like.



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04 Mar 2012, 7:57 pm

Has anyone ever TRIED yoga? or tai chi? Prayer and meditation?

These things are disciplines and require self-motivation for benefit but none of them are hard.

I've always had trouble quieting my mind. I also count things. I use a mix of yoga and tai chi to find my center and calm my spirit.


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04 Mar 2012, 8:15 pm

It never stops .... but in the meantime, playing with a cat or dog, reading, movies and tv ... Anything to keep your mind distracted.



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04 Mar 2012, 8:18 pm

Distraction, that's all I can suggest. I can't physically relax, it literally irritates my mind to a point of inducing anxiety and paranoid delusions in extreme cases. Feels like my mind is punishing me for being too brain dead when I relax I guess.


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04 Mar 2012, 8:21 pm

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I don't. Can't be done. Grab hold of the safety bar and hang on tight for the ride of your life! That's my philosophy. Treat it like a roller coaster and use it. I just do stuff all day long until I drop at the end of the day from exhaustion.

If I could stop it, the lack of activity would drive me insane.
Ditto. And learn to make your brain work for you. Find what you like to do and keep doing it. If you really want to "stop" your brain, there are probably drugs for that. But I don't reccommend that route if you can avoid it.



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04 Mar 2012, 8:25 pm

only a few things can help a little bit for me, to switch my brain nearly off or at least make it work on only one track:

1. heavy reading of interesting topics… the more scientific the better.

2. listening to certain podcasts to fall asleep

3. have a partner and engage in wonderful sexual activities. a lot.


haven't found any other ways. i really tried. :?



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04 Mar 2012, 8:30 pm

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3. have a partner and engage in wonderful sexual activities. a lot.


8O

Do tell!

On second thought, don't. That would get the thread moved to the Adult forum.

Come to think of it though, you're RIGHT! That DOES work really well! :lol:


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04 Mar 2012, 8:51 pm

Nothing makes my brain stop....medication makes the activity a bit slower and less chaotic but it doesn't make it stop. I just try to find ways to make the endless activity enjoyable or tolerable--to channel it and turn it into focus. I try to find things I can lose myself in (like playing music or studying the way my cats twitch their tails).


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04 Mar 2012, 8:58 pm

Dont know what to do about it, but you might think about getting a job with RGIS Inventory Service.

We are not only paid to count merchandise in stores all day but you're expected to count objects in groups- not adding them in your head- but keying them into a portible computer in groups and letting the machine do the adding. You see a row of bottles of soda pop -key them in in groups of three- and the machine tells you there are 12 in the row. And you go to the next row.

Might as well get paid for your obsessive compulsion!



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04 Mar 2012, 9:03 pm

katwithhat wrote:
Tuttle wrote:
I find petting a kitty helps.


My cat is great stress relief, I just wish he would let me pet him as much as I would like.


Tried naping in my cramped car in the bright sunny afternoon just before a college class once and actually got myself to fall sleep by visualizing that I was petting my pet kitty cat at home.

So apparently even visually that your petting your pet can do alot.



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04 Mar 2012, 9:20 pm

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Dont know what to do about it, but you might think about getting a job with RGIS Inventory Service.

We are not only paid to count merchandise in stores all day but you're expected to count objects in groups- not adding them in your head- but keying them into a portible computer in groups and letting the machine do the adding. You see a row of bottles of soda pop -key them in in groups of three- and the machine tells you there are 12 in the row. And you go to the next row.

Might as well get paid for your obsessive compulsion!


I think I just had a mental orgasm.



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04 Mar 2012, 9:29 pm

katwithhat wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
Dont know what to do about it, but you might think about getting a job with RGIS Inventory Service.

We are not only paid to count merchandise in stores all day but you're expected to count objects in groups- not adding them in your head- but keying them into a portible computer in groups and letting the machine do the adding. You see a row of bottles of soda pop -key them in in groups of three- and the machine tells you there are 12 in the row. And you go to the next row.

Might as well get paid for your obsessive compulsion!


I think I just had a mental orgasm.


Omg!

Is that good, or bad?



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04 Mar 2012, 9:37 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
katwithhat wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
Dont know what to do about it, but you might think about getting a job with RGIS Inventory Service.

We are not only paid to count merchandise in stores all day but you're expected to count objects in groups- not adding them in your head- but keying them into a portible computer in groups and letting the machine do the adding. You see a row of bottles of soda pop -key them in in groups of three- and the machine tells you there are 12 in the row. And you go to the next row.

Might as well get paid for your obsessive compulsion!


I think I just had a mental orgasm.


Omg!

Is that good, or bad?


My brain thinks so!! !