Cognitive soothing / thinking psychologically question

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Lalaland123

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I do have some weird cognitive traits such as aphantasia and anendophasia (meaning I can't visualize and I don't have an internal monologue). I really only start to notice that I'm stressing about my symptoms when I'm very anxious and my body feels uncomfortable, but 90 % of the time I'm unaware of my fear thoughts. Now I have the option of doing cognitive soothing or thinking psychologically (by talking out loud to myself) whenever I'm starting to feel weird or realize I'm focusing on my symptoms or I could simply talk out loud to myself in a ,,soothing way" several times a day kinda like a preventive measure just in case I'm having a fear thought which I'm not aware of? What do you think is better?
 
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Thank you for your answers. That's sometimes how this whole journey feels to me - like one big experiment. I realized I don't really like talking out loud to myself in case someone hears me. I'm already doing Nicole Sachs JournalSpeak but I think I'm going to start a new notebook for stream of consciousness journaling - that is simply writing what's on one's "mind".
 
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Lalaland123 said:
Thank you for your answers. That's sometimes how this whole journey feels to me - like one big experiment. I realized I don't really like talking out loud to myself in case someone hears me. I'm already doing Nicole Sachs JournalSpeak but I think I'm going to start a new notebook for stream of consciousness journaling - that is simply writing what's on one's "mind".
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Yes!!! This is all one big experiment for each of us! —-and for me personally, I really like the stream of consciousness writing. It actually works better for me than the digging for anger type journaling.
 
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