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Past memories can hit you like a ton of bricks. To learn more about how to stop past thoughts, researchers looked at three modes of eliminating memories. “Think of old thoughts as used dirty ...
Perseverative cognition [1] [2] is a collective term in psychology for continuous thinking about negative events [3] in the past or in the future (e.g. worry, rumination and brooding, but also mind wandering about negative topics [4] [5]).
Finally, there is the famous last thesis on Feuerbach: "The philosophers have only interpreted the world differently; the point is, however, to change it", which, in the light of Marx's thought, one could render more adequately as: The philosophers have interpreted the world long enough; the time has come to change it.
Practicing mindfulness, taking up a new hobby, journaling, challenging negative, obsessive thoughts and speaking to a therapist (or other mental health professional) are all ways to help stop ...
"A Sketch of the Past" is an autobiographical essay written by Virginia Woolf in 1939. It was written as a break from writing her biography of Roger Fry , English artist and critic , and fellow member of the Bloomsbury Group .
Ongoingness: The End of a Diary is a 2015 book by Sarah Manguso.Manguso kept a journal for 25 years, producing an 800,000-word-long document. In Ongoingness, she explores and reflects upon her reasons and motivations for journaling – her obsessive need to document every incident in her life because she was afraid she would forget the details later, and using journaling as a coping mechanism ...
When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor (1996) [1] is a book by William Julius Wilson, Professor of Social Policy at Harvard.Wilson's argument is that the disappearance of work and the consequences of that disappearance for both social and cultural life are the central problems in the inner-city ghetto.
Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) is marked by an excessive obsession with rules, lists, schedules, and order; a need for perfection [11] that interferes with efficiency and the ability to complete tasks; a devotion to productivity that hinders interpersonal relationships and leisure time; rigidity and zealousness on matters of ...