I’ve lost hours—days—replaying things I wish I could undo. It felt like I was stuck in my own mind. Here’s how I slowly found ways to quiet the noise and come back to the present.
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I’ve lost hours—days—replaying things I wish I could undo. It felt like I was stuck in my own mind. Here’s how I slowly found ways to quiet the noise and come back to the present.
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I wish there were a magic switch to turn it off, but for me, it was a slow and bumpy process. I used to replay certain conversations or mistakes endlessly, like a broken record. I’d try to rewrite the past in my mind. Eventually, I realized that reliving it wasn’t helping—it was just keeping me stuck. What helped was acknowledging it: “Yes, that happened. Yes, it hurt.” And then doing something grounding—like writing it out, going for a walk, or just breathing deeply. The thoughts still come sometimes, but now I know I don’t have to follow them every time they knock on the door.