I've got really bad with this lately - some embarrassing memory will crop up and I'll feel compelled to blot it out by saying a word or phrase, or even singing some weird, manic surreal little song!
I went through a very tourettes-ey time where the word my subconscious chose for the blotting out was 'the "N" word', and I'd just blurt it out, regardless of where I was. That led to some difficult situations when I lived closer to London... It's more tune-based these days, thank god.
As for the general internal dialogue thing, I do this excessively and consider it to be a very negative thing, and fundamental to my DP. I don't seem to be able to have a thought that isn't language-based; it's just words, words, words - in the booming voice of my internal narrator.
I went through a very tourettes-ey time where the word my subconscious chose for the blotting out was 'the "N" word', and I'd just blurt it out, regardless of where I was. That led to some difficult situations when I lived closer to London... It's more tune-based these days, thank god.
As for the general internal dialogue thing, I do this excessively and consider it to be a very negative thing, and fundamental to my DP. I don't seem to be able to have a thought that isn't language-based; it's just words, words, words - in the booming voice of my internal narrator.
