How do you forget certain parts of your past? (1 Viewer)

[jasque]

Now I remembered that Simpsons episode

 

[Abeamus]

Just gotta find something that works for you really whether that's talking about it with someone or distracting yourself with your own interests but these aren't ways for you to forget they are ways for you to just let your emotions on the subject rest so you can move on from it. This only works though if there is something specific playing on your mind about a situation like the most prominent one with these things is usually the "why?" but in those scenarios then you should think to yourself why is it important? Will it really change anything if you know or will you just feel the same with more knowledge? If your answer is yes then you can try and get the answer but if you can't then don't let your mind dwell on something you can't control and instead focus on what you can control.

 

[Skinnny]

Forgetting never works. Acceptance is how you can truly cope. Other than that, making new memories helps.

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[dark_tranquility]

By acknowledging that it happened or occurred, then never thinking on it again.
Also it helps to remove those objects that lead up to that point in time.
Be it people, or activities or whatever else.

Trauma usually tends to stick with a person, so easier said than done I know!
I still cannot do certain things or have certain impacts on my mindset and physically, which I can never erase.

 

[yeji]

I honestly wish I knew that myslef. I guess focusing on something else cam work. I myself am quite the overthinker so I get just wanting to stop thinking about certain situations

 

[Deleted member 74]

Everyone has different ways of forgetting, coping with and dealing with certain parts of our pasts. Honestly, you can't erase past memories completely. Everything that happens to you makes up who you are, you wouldn't be yourself if you were missing even one memory. Especially if they're bad memories and parts of a past, life is just built like that. Everyone struggles, everyone hurts, just differently. Pain shapes you. For me, I've never really thought about how to forget because that's impossible. I just dwell on those parts when the time comes for it, I feel sad or angry or whatever I feel during that time, allow myself to feel that way, and keep moving on. I think the parts of my life I want to forget the most are the important events that make me who I am today. Even if I could forget, I wouldn't because in life, you're meant to learn. You can't run from yourself or your experiences. I think if it was made impossible to forget such events, it's for a reason and all you can do is learn and take it with you in the next chapters of your life.