"Ldldldld!"
You know why I'm making nonsensical noises like that with my tongue?
I'm replacing an intrusive thought and I'm replacing a rumination.
I was just going about my happy day and then suddenly I had a flashback to some horrible abusive person who was in my life, and a traumatic memory of what they were doing to me a while back.
That's called an intrusive thoughts, or a rumination.
I like to live in the here-and-now, and I try to have a fantastic life.
So I was like:
"I don't want this terrible person in my head. How can I get this person out?"
A therapist will tell you to get rid of your intrusive thoughts and get rid of your ruminations.
A rumination is a word for when a cow chews and chews like "mrowmrowmrow."
But a rumination is also when you're thinking and thinking and thinking about something, and this overthinking ruins your life a little.
And so, therapists will tell you to get rid of that ruminating intrusive thought in a variety of ways, like by adding distractions, or with exercise.
And then the mindfulness people will tell you to try to observe the thought objectively, to try to observe this horrible person memory and just pull yourself out of that moment emotionally or whatever.
That might help you.
But you know what's helping me lately, is every now and then, once a day or two, I'll think about some horrible person who was in my life, a traumatic, terrible human being, and then I'll be like:
"Ldldldld!"
I'll make that sound with my tongue like how a child makes crazy sounds with their mouths and tongues.
I'll do it in my head silently.
If I'm driving and there's someone in the seat next to me and I do it out loud with my tongue, they might think I've lost my mind and say:
"Hey, let's go to the hospital."
So try it in your head first, or try it out loud alone, like:
"Oh my God, somebody's in my head. It's an intrusive thought! It's a rumination!"
And then go:
"Ldldldld!"
And keep doing it until they're gone from your thoughts.
You'll probably laugh at yourself like I laugh at myself when I do this.
And the laughter is super great for evicting that rumination, at least for a bit.
Get your life back!
You know you want to enjoy your happy life.
And so what I'm saying is, you can do lots of things to get the pain away, and sometimes what you have to do to get the pain away is:
"Ldldldld!"
It doesn't have to be the same sound I make.
You can make up your own nonsensical sounds!
Try it. I love you. I hope you're having a very healthy and happy sane day with no jerks in your life!
