May 8, 2008
So my friend D., the former psychologist, told me of an exercise he used to give his patients. Keep a list of all negative thoughts for one day, 24 hours. And then come back. With that assignment, I hereby pull down my pants for the world:
I hate my voice, I sound like a baby
I’m a terrible listener, I just want to watch LOST, and I have to hang up the phone during a friendly conversation
I’m going to die
I’m wasting away
I have chin hairs which I can never catch altogether
I’m a terrible mother
I better stop putting one negative thought per line because this post will take up my entire alloted space on wordpress ..
seriously, one hour of negative thought about ME could be a 3 volume, micro font set
so does 24 hours of negative thoughts mean you have to record the negative thoughts that come to you in dreams? because if not, we are talking only 16 Hours of Negative Thoughts.
But I can easily list the negative thoughts that come in dreams. No problemo.
I’m an idiot talking to myself on the blog.
IT IS TEN SEVENTEEN PM AND I AM GOING TO STOP BUT I’LL RETURN WITH EVERY NEGATIVE THOUGHT BETWEEN NOW AND 5 PM MANANA.
I’ll never catch up on LOST because I’m too stoned to even watch it in real time
I’m too tired to be stoned
Stoned? What am I? From the 70’s???
Yes.
Okay, this is maddening …. MUST…… STOP…..
Jesus…. no wonder people gave up on this exercise….. there’s no way.
May 9, 2008 at 11:06 am
Good God. The encyclopedic list I could come up with is overwhelming just to think about. Yikes.
May 9, 2008 at 11:14 am
Yeah… he said no one ever completed the assignment. I have to ask him what underhanded sneaky psychological lesson that taught..
May 9, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Isn’t it obvious? You have a negative mindset that needs to change. It is endemic in our culture.
May 9, 2008 at 6:19 pm
I thought the idea was to list your negative thoughts so you could work on correcting them one by one, not just realize you’re fucked up and have to stop due to brain implosion.
May 11, 2008 at 12:20 am
Oh noes!1!! My brain asploded!!!1!squarerootof121!!!