dissonance
Purposeful Forgetting
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There are thoughts that often bother me. These are things that cannot be resolved. One method of coping with such thoughts is a process that I call active forgetting. If there is nothing which can be done about it, then why not simply catch yourself when you are thinking such things and actively work to suppress and forget such memories. This I guess is the reverse of psychoanalysis, and I can't truly say that it works permanently -- but at least in the short term it is an effective coping mechanism. Read on...
