[Tim45]

Good evening dear Community,

I want to ask if someone has the same thoughts like me. They all begin with the word "Why?" Its about everything in life like why am I saying that? Why am I thinking that? Why am I doing that? In the first place I know why I am saying or doing something but afterwards there pops up new questions. For example: Why do I clean that up? To get it clean. Why do I have to get it clean? Because it looks "better", maybe there could be some bacteria. Why do it have to look better? etc. etc. Its like theres no end of these thoughts and I feel I cant think logically anymore. I hope you can understand what I am trying to tell. Can somebody relate to that and got some tips? Thank you very much in advance.

Greetings

 

[Chip1021]

It seems to me that you are thinking very logically. I think it was Gilbert K. Chesterton who said “the madman is not the one who has lost his reason; the madman is the one who has lost everything except his reason.” I absolutely relate to that quote. What to do about it? Well you could ignore or distract or redirect your thinking onto more productive ideas instead of just analyzing your own actions into the ground. How to do that effectively? Well I’m no expert on that one.

 

[coolwhip27]

OCD can do that, it can beg questions that can’t answered. Because then you’re stuck trying to figure it out, hence it being a bottomless pit. Thought itself is what puts you in that bottomless pit.

 

[coolwhip27]

It seems to me that you are thinking very logically. I think it was Gilbert K. Chesterton who said “the madman is not the one who has lost his reason; the madman is the one who has lost everything except his reason.” I absolutely relate to that quote. What to do about it? Well you could ignore or distract or redirect your thinking onto more productive ideas instead of just analyzing your own actions into the ground. How to do that effectively? Well I’m no expert on that one.

(Im not pointing fingers at you as if you were doing this). Think seriously with me for a second. What’s it mean to ask how, like when people on here say they need answers, tell me how to do it and I will, that how is apart of disorder. The literal thought of asking “how?” represents a stopping block inside us, it’s inaction. So we have to look carefully at the nature of thought to see what’s happening so we can begin to understand it. Once it’s understood that the driving force behind ourselves must be without pause, without an interval inwhich it takes time to figure out here to there then where is the importance of knowledge? Psychological knowledge, of course we need the necessities of knowledge for daily life but the need to access our memory and accumulations of past recognition is gone where there is freedom in ourselves. I’m serious. Like, if I were to understand myself, does that mean I use previous knowledge stored up in my brain to discern myself? Then I’m not really looking at myself, to look at myself really means to look anew, with totally fresh eyes. And you don’t look with fresh eyes and then gain knowledge, Psychological knowledge that we store up ourselves can be completely thrown out forever once it’s understood that it’s not needed. This is serious, don’t store this up as an idea. The idea, the concept, the memory is not at all important

 

[NoDevils]

It sounds like your thoughts are running a little quickly and obsessionally. This might be normal for you. Maybe anxiety has supercharged the process or given it an anxious flavor. We see this in depersonalization very often and most of us on this site have experienced it firsthand.

 

[Tim45]

Thank you very much guys for commenting and giving me advice. In the last few days I was able to calm me down a little bit concerning the thoughts.