- Date posted
- 1y
can somebody explain why our brain does this?
For some reasons i felt a swelling in my groin area, and then i thought that it would be terrible to have an intrusive image happen or worse, having that traumatic memory repeat in my head, and as i thought that i already knew that it was going to happen, i knew that my brain had already made up its mind that it was going to replay it, i tried to stop it but it happened immediately, i didn't want it to happen so it happened. Like a self-sabotaging machine. I didn't want to go there and it happened more easily. If I just let it go and didn't think about not wanting to happen it probably wouldn't have. It's because I engaged with the fear of not wanting something like that happen that it precisely happened. But what are the scientific reasons or the overall explaination for why the more we try to fight something FROM happening, it ultimately happens, and in additions easily? It feels like I'm digging my own grave everytime, there is a point while I'm trying to fight back with all my might where I simply give up and let the intrusive image/memory happen. It's like I ultimately sabotage myself. Maybe it's because the "battle" has to end in some way and the winner is always ocd, the intrusive thought, otherwise I'd go fighting endlessly. Maybe it's because I get tired of fighting Why is that? I'm trying to shift the attention from the immense distress that this episode caused me to the explanation behind the mechanism to understand and transform this traumatic experience from a triggering experience to a learning one. For my sake. Because I can't keep living like this. Everyday. I've had a traumatic memory repeat more than once. It's hard to live like this.