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Posted: July 04 2004,11:20
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Sometimes our brains go over and over the same subjects: still we repeat the same habits and compulsions. My brain sometimes repeats the same conversations with itself - all day long!
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lizzy
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Posted: July 04 2004,16:06
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Well, I'm most definitely a ruminator, so I guess this thread is the place for me! I'm too tired to go into specifics right now, and I've already described some of it in another thread. Just wanted to say hi.
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Posted: July 05 2004,05:32
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Thanks Lizzy!
I most definetly am a ruminator, at least some times, if that counts. It varies from a particular song that I don't even like and is in my head the whole day (talking about unpleasant!) to repeating certain sentences over and over again in my mind(from ''nowhere'' they come). That's actually like having repetitive thoughts, right?
I remember that was actually my first symptom of ''real'' OCD. There was one short stupid sentence that I couldn't get out of my head for days and it started scaring me eventually...
Anyway, I'm in!
Edited by leonarda on July 05 2004,05:32
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Posted: July 05 2004,16:51
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what if you have the same conversation from 100 different angles?
I do this alot. its like looking at it from every different veiw point. it gets beyond ridiculous.
For example.....
i'd like to chew on a piece of gum..the only problem is that i have ten different flavours in front of me..which do i choose....
the cherry
the mint
the grape
the watermelon
the bubblegum
the spiramint
the strawberry
the cinnamon
the lemon
and that blue trident kind that tastes like tooth paste
so i go over this 100 different ways of trying to decide what flavour i want to chew and some days it takes me up to an hour to decide....but by the time i decide...the problem is that i no longer feel like chewing.
i do this with conversations.....
if i am going to to the pdoc or the t. i will think about every possible thing that could possibly come up as a topic of conversation and work out what exactly i will say in response to his or her questions. then i reannalyze and reevaluate and do it again and try to think of better answers and more questions. after the appointements i rethink what was said and how it went and what was said by both of us and what was said in between the lines. were there any inuendos on the t.s behalf or the pdocs behalf. (see i dont want to look crazy or they might lock me up again)
i do this with my family as well constantly. what are they implying, what do i think, what do they really think,
i do this with all my psts and pms on here as well.
is this ruminating?
my problem is that I JUST CANT LET THINGS GO.
IC~
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~Inner Chaos~
I ask for peace
it is not granted.
A storm is brewing,
I rage within.
Let lightening
strike me down,
For then perhaps
I may find peace.~IC
aguppe
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Posted: July 05 2004,22:51
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put me down as a ruminator!!!!!
I post mortem nearly every action i have, every thought, every word. I even ruminate on songs...lol
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This is not me
I used to be strong
Now I feel weak
This is not me
I never said it was
I didn't like it because I lost my way
From Delta Goodrem's "inocent eyes"album
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Posted: July 06 2004,05:30
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I'm a ruminator too! I have many conversations in my head about how I think the conversation should or may go...
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Posted: July 06 2004,12:36
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hand up!! im one to!!!
songs i dont think are a problem, cos everyone has that i think, but phrases, my god!!! they go over and over!!! for example, i watched this documentary on the american military, well actually it was about american 'imperialism', but neways they described the military as having 'full spectrum dominance', i went over that phrase in my head all day long for like a week, lol, quite funny when u think about it.
then, the funniest one was, after reading somone on this website talking about their doctor telling them that they ruminate, i was making the dinner and doing the dishes after and the whole think i said that word over and over again 'ruminating', hmmmmmmmmm, comforting! its quite ironic that i would ruminate about the word rumination. Its like the most ironic word in the english dictionary, verbose, which means overly elaborate language use. So to describe somones verbose language u yourself will be verbose, that is ofcoursae if u use the word verbose(eh u got it, no explaination was needed, oh well).
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Posted: July 06 2004,14:46
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"ruminating" and "verbose"
*sigh*
they both do have such a lovely ring to them as i repeat them over and over in my head...maybe they will be my new words to repeat as i count my ceiling tonight......thanks
michealIRL......lol......
new words to repeat.....lol.....well...repeating words sure counting!
do you repeat them..i do over and over sometimes fast and then slower and then really slow and then medium speed ...just to see how they sound at different rythems. lol.
oh well.......
maybe i will go to bed now just so i do thqat and see how it feels to me....counting my ceiling and saying those new words instead of my old two words........
IC~
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~Inner Chaos~
I ask for peace
it is not granted.
A storm is brewing,
I rage within.
Let lightening
strike me down,
For then perhaps
I may find peace.~IC
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Posted: July 07 2004,01:08
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LOL, ur welcome! i can give u a multitude more, i joke!!!! sorry for giving u a little bit of a trigger!
but, as opposed to saying things at differnt paces, i say them in differnt accents, infact i just talk all the time in loads of differnt accents, people tend to get slightly confused!
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Posted: July 07 2004,05:54
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trust me micheal,
you did not trigger me at all.
if you did not give me new words to think about...then there is always the dictionary!
IC~
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~Inner Chaos~
I ask for peace
it is not granted.
A storm is brewing,
I rage within.
Let lightening
strike me down,
For then perhaps
I may find peace.~IC
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Posted: July 07 2004,07:23
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I sometimes try to be smarter than my phrases repeating themselves and I convert them into comics in my mind. You know, to really think them through and then ''bye bye, go away'' so they'd go away and stop bugging me. Does that work? Lol it does . Any more affective ways of fighting them?
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Posted: July 07 2004,12:25
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I AM the RUMINATOR!!!
[it gets SO noisy in my head that I have to tell the conversations to just 'shut up' - really annoying]
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Orso
œI held my tongue until it turned blue . . .you said I had ˜an attitude™ . . .?
Paul Westerberg
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Lizzy Any Ruminators Out There? Jul 9 2004, 03:25 AM
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