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“Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem”

Well, the other option is to stop trying. That usually doesn't yield improvements. ***** None of this stuff makes sense until you're able to lift yourself out of it and gain some *hindsight.* Whil…

r/CPTSDcomment4/10/2026
Specific Person (SP) Manifestation: No Magic, No Supernatural Forces. Just Proven Science

Specific Person (SP) Manifestation: No Magic, No Supernatural Forces. Just Proven Science — Hi everyone, It’s been a long time since I last posted, and honestly it was overdue. I keep seeing the same recycled LOA bullshit everywhere. Endless manifestation porn, more unqualified people calli…

r/JosephMurphypost2/14/2026
what finally got me to shift - I broke my mind ⋆˚࿔

what finally got me to shift - I broke my mind ⋆˚࿔ — I used to be the person who would try to shift every single night and wake up crying from a failed attempt because I was so frustrated with the fact that I wasn’t shifting. I thought that I fully be…

r/realityshiftingpost3/20/2026
I made the post about breaking my mind for shifting - here’s how I did it ⛓️‍💥

I made the post about breaking my mind for shifting - here’s how I did it ⛓️‍💥 — Hello radiant soul! 𓂃˖˳·˖ ִֶָ ⋆🌷͙⋆ ִֶָ˖·˳˖𓂃 ִֶָ I made a post on Reddit about how I reprogrammed my brain for shifting (and spiritual practices in general\*) and many of you requested that I make…

r/realityshiftingpost3/28/2026
breakthrough trip & the bigger picture

breakthrough trip & the bigger picture — Hello, it's me again. I know that there are people here who enjoy reading my experiences so thus my posting. Obviously a disclaimer is this experience is under the influence of a psychadelic, but it t…

r/experiencerspost3/29/2026
Need help understanding APs through a sociological perspective

Need help understanding APs through a sociological perspective — Context: I’m first generation Thai American. My grandmother moved to the US to raise me when I was just a month old because my mom developed cancer. Growing up, my cultural identity became a source o…

r/AsianParentStoriespost4/1/2026
Exploring wierd psychodelic concepts

Exploring wierd psychodelic concepts — Hi, I’ve taken psychedelics many times (20–30), mainly acid, and during my trips I started experiencing weird concepts and mechanisms of psychedelics. The best I can describe it: something like seeing…

r/Psychonautpost4/6/2026
is there a way that i (29f) could have trained myself to react differently under stress in life situations to not stress him (29m) out?

is there a way that i (29f) could have trained myself to react differently under stress in life situations to not stress him (29m) out? — Day 4 of break up and it hurts so bad. he says we are incompatible because we argue about the small stuff all the time. but it wasn't my intention to argue with him at all. i want to change myself for…

r/relationship_advicepost4/9/2026
Is there a way that i (29f) could have trained myself to react differently under stress in life situations to not stress him (29m) out?

Is there a way that i (29f) could have trained myself to react differently under stress in life situations to not stress him (29m) out? — It's me again... pls help me out of this nightmare... Day 4 of break up and it hurts so bad. he says we are incompatible because we argue about the small stuff all the time. but it wasn't my intention…

r/BreakUpspost4/9/2026
My girlfriend ‘35F’ and I ‘35M’ are struggling with vastly different libidos

My girlfriend ‘35F’ and I ‘35M’ are struggling with vastly different libidos — My girlfriend ‘35F’ and I ‘35M’ have been together for around 6 years. Initially, we would have sex all the time. Covid hit, we moved in together and sex slowly reduced, she has gained a significant a…

r/relationship_advicepost4/10/2026
When you were constantly blamed or ignored

When you were constantly blamed or ignored — This therapist has 45 years dealing with family systems, and is also an expert on “getting your family system out of you”. Finally becoming an individual who feels and acts freely. He covers everyth…

r/EmotionalNeglectpost4/12/2026
My arguments against manifestation

I’ll take a crack at it Point 1: The answer is sm vs cm thought. Daydreaming is not focused with intent, the mind often wonders and you still feel it’s not true in the end or with emotions that are …

r/JosephMurphycomment1/24/2025
How do I know if I simply don’t like someone enough to be with them or if I’m simply running away from what is safe?

Take time to actually get to know someone, go slow, keep things light at first, don't jump into a relationship. Instead think about true compatibility in things like communication, lifestyle, values, …

r/attachment_theorycomment4/3/2025
The "and" theory...

One of the most powerful things the "and" theory / method does, it stop you from suppressing negative emotions. Feel them. Say them. Write them down. Your brain is programmed to remember the good tim…

r/attachment_theorycomment4/4/2025
The "and" theory...

We, myself included, are programmed to want answers, sometimes where there are none. So we chase abusers. Does it help? No. Do we think it will? Yes. Sometimes people have to experience the pain of y…

r/attachment_theorycomment4/4/2025
Turns out I needed a "middleman" to have a successful relationship with a DA

The demonization of avoidant people really annoys me. I'm fearful avoidant so I see all perspectives in this and yeah avoidance is hurtful, neglect is painful, creating space through fights is toxic a…

r/attachment_theorycomment5/20/2025
I’m FA, he’s DA

OP you can also find the official DBT workbook online for free and go through it yourself. it's got 100s of pages of skills-based lessons and exercises. if you can't afford the therapy you can DIY the…

r/attachment_theorycomment7/23/2025
Why do people in LOA communities ALWAYS go to Reddit for their problems when JM advised against that?

This is straight facts. Most people in the world don’t believe in these teachings or any New Thought principles. They’re on autopilot, brainwashed, kissing others asses, blinded or too closed-minded t…

r/JosephMurphycomment10/12/2025
Finding proof that you were right to be anxious

I know you’re looking for advice but just wanted to say you’re not alone. I’m experiencing almost the exact same thoughts and feelings. It’s almost like my nervous system is programmed to expect other…

r/AnxiousAttachmentcomment10/22/2025
Inner Child healing exercises?

omg no!!! dont use chat gpt for therapy. you can ask for exercises or prompts but never feed all your personal info into it or ask it for advice. ai is programmed to always tell you what you want to h…

r/AnxiousAttachmentcomment12/25/2025
Inner Child healing exercises?

chat gpt is not a person, its a bunch of code programmed to analyze what youre saying and keep a conversation going. sometimes it spits out pure nonsense just to answer your question. it literally jus…

r/AnxiousAttachmentcomment12/26/2025
My arguments against manifestation

Here's my thoughts after being on this subreddit for a while, and I am someone who has been daily practicing for the past 8+ months with no physical results. 1. Maladaptive daydreaming proves that ma…

r/JosephMurphycomment1/27/2026
Shame has dictated my entire life for 41 years

Well, same, 42…unemployed 3years, used to be healthy, got into addiction young, got sober and have been for so long but with no life. Never planned a life, didn’t think anything was possible. Poor, no…

r/EmotionalNeglectcomment3/8/2026
Will I ever not feel so lonely? (Seeking input from older folks on this platform)

Yes, this is when you need Al-Anon the most. If you’d like to get a good idea about why that’s true, this interview from Steve-O’s Wild Ride is brilliant. Alcoholism has almost nothing to do with a…

r/EmotionalNeglectcomment3/8/2026
DAE find dating just kinda ..boring?

> I'll be attracted to someone, have great conversation but when it comes to planning a 2nd or 3rd date... I don't really care that much about building something with them. Given that you didn't kno…

r/datingoverthirtycomment3/9/2026
I (F18) am jealous of my boyfriend (M18) for the gpt chat

Oh yikes. He is buying into the same stuff that people with ai-induced psychosis do. Those chat bots are programmed to use the same phrasing as sycophants and lackeys that the tech overlords pay to te…

r/relationship_advicecomment3/9/2026
I (F18) am jealous of my boyfriend (M18) for the gpt chat

I would show him the statistics of AI giving him the answers he wants. Including making him ask his AI if it is giving him factual answers or if the answers are what he has programmed it to give him

r/relationship_advicecomment3/9/2026
I (28F) am tired of constantly having to ask or tell my partner (28F) how to love/care for me. Do I just move on?

Sounds like incompatibility. It happens. I think some women are raised and programmed to be that way: men do the chasing, the dance of seduction, and women only have to choose whether to let them o…

r/relationshipscomment3/9/2026
Everything we know about shifting is probably false

*short novel alert, sorry, TL;DR at the end* As someone who has been struggling with finding a technique that "just works" for these things as well, and who also just discovered I am neurodivergent (…

r/realityshiftingcomment3/10/2026
DAE find dating just kinda ..boring?

I think we’re slowly being programmed to lose interest quickly with all this instant gratification at our fingertips.

r/datingoverthirtycomment3/10/2026
Choosing myself feels like betraying my family, but staying feels like losing my life

I’m Bangladeshi/Bengali as well as I was raised Muslim. I definitely understand where you’re coming from. First, I want to pose a scenario to you completely outside of whoever it is you’re dating now,…

r/AsianParentStoriescomment3/11/2026
For Those Struggling With REBAL Build

Honestly mixing the chakra stuff with the rebal is a pretty smart workaround. I actually started doing this myself at some point, consciously letting the energy flow through and target the chakra cent…

r/gatewaytapescomment3/11/2026
The quiet house is the hardest part and nobody warned me

I programmed my lights to turn on before I got home and always have the TV on as well as headphones. We evolved in campfire tribes, night stories, we need to honor that need.

r/Divorcecomment3/12/2026
For those who stayed no contact with a parent until they died did you regret it?

The guilt is part of the brain washing. They programmed it in you shackle you emotionally to their abuse. Every time you feel that guilt, remind yourself it is just the brainwashing trying to prevent …

r/raisedbynarcissistscomment3/12/2026
Knowing the exact time when waking up - psychic or circadian?

Thanks for the link, I'll definitely check it out! You're wise to pay attention to those prompts when you get them and try to determine what's being said. In my case, I found a numerology website tha…

r/experiencerscomment3/13/2026
The secret to manifestation

The root behind all manifestations is the mind. When the mind is programmed to be absolutely certain of its ability to manifest anything, the intention will materialize at some point. It is an eventua…

r/nevillegoddardcomment3/13/2026
My (F28) partner (M28) gave me an ultimatum: him or my birds. Idk what to do

To summarise - he wanted the birds, they were less fun than he thought and now he wants to abandon responsibility. What do you honestly think he would do if you got sick and were "unfun" for a while?…

r/relationship_advicecomment3/13/2026
Unable to forget what I (20F) saw on my bf’s (24M) phone

"I’ve always stated that porn isn’t an issue. I’ve had past relationships where it definitely evolved into an issue, but as long as my partner is being open and honest abt watching it - then I couldn’…

r/relationship_advicecomment3/13/2026
My boyfriend (31M) is upset I prioritize money and don’t want kids, even though I (24F) told him this from the start

31 and still living at home with parents??..... he doesn't even need to be thinking about kids. He can't even afford his damn self. I'll never understand men like this. Ready to pop their penis in a c…

r/relationship_advicecomment3/14/2026
(trip report) Telepathic communication through high doses of psilocybin

Tbh I could easily read this. Uncommon for this but somehow you chose the right flow for me. I am pretty sure psy substances can enable us to do things like this. IMO we can train this with spirtual …

r/Psychonautcomment3/15/2026
Constant doubt about your experiences ?

I just wanted to add to the comment above, the mind controls the body and therefore the body is part of the minds system/network and is able to sense phenomena just like an extension of the mind. T…

r/experiencerscomment3/15/2026
I realize Im not allowed to be anything less than above average with this condition.

I relate - I was programmed that I need to earn love, and that I needed to be perfect (IE straight As in school was a requirement, not an option). What I'm doing now is testing the waters of imperfec…

r/CPTSDcomment3/15/2026
Us who were child victims

I get it. I also have reflected deeply and realized that I simply repeat trying to "fix" things that happened in my childhood, with respective partners. It is an unconscious thing that I have been pro…

r/CPTSDcomment3/15/2026
For the adult children with emotionally immature parents.. now what?

Usually because they have so many resentment towards other people, also highly likely she was also emotionally neglected too. You shouldn't feel bad at all but that's also one of the things they prog…

r/EmotionalNeglectcomment3/16/2026
How does a rational universe produce people who are irrational?

Maybe the universe *is* rational precisely because it allows for the full spectrum of human choice, including the choice to be wrong. If we were programmed to be perfectly rational robots, we wouldn't…

r/Stoicismcomment3/18/2026
Why am I anxiously attached to partners and friends but not my parents?

It’s not therapy culture you’re describing that is obsessed with labels and identifying with them, it’s TikTok. I’ve seen like 10 therapists in my life and literally none of them have talked about att…

r/AnxiousAttachmentcomment3/20/2026
Were you basically surviving your entire childhood?

Same, what I been through in my childhood and teen years is nothing but hell. Constant abuse, humiliation, and horrible self esteem. I don't know if elementary or high school were worse. I started get…

r/raisedbynarcissistscomment3/21/2026
I meditated for 10 years. Here is how life changed

I have found that meditation does lead to the avoidance of “the life” we are programmed to believe we should be living. With meditation you become calm. Thus you attract calm. No need to avoid toxic…

r/Meditationcomment3/22/2026
My "Alzheimer technique" worked on my NMom again but I almost chickened out

maybe a weird take, but let her throw her tantrum, it is her behavior and should also be her shame, not yours. that shame has been programmed into you. as a controle mechanism. but look at her durin…

r/raisedbynarcissistscomment3/22/2026
People with CPTSD what are things that people just don’t get about it?

Me: "I've had so many people treat me a certain way that I'm now programmed to expect everyone to treat me that way" Person: "Wow, I'm so offended that you think that I personally would do that." Th…

r/CPTSDcomment3/26/2026
What's a statement from your parents that sounded good back then but has aged like milk once you realized your emotional neglect?

Holy shit my mother doles out the ‘well you and [siblings] never did X, Y and Z line often and it’s usually whilst criticising my sisters parenting (one of my nieces has autism and as such they may us…

r/EmotionalNeglectcomment3/26/2026
Does anyone else just… not feel human?

Yeah. I often feel like a robot sent to earth programmed by aliens where they got regular humaning right about 85% of the time, but where they missed, it's REALLY off. Like, I have all the basic huma…

r/CPTSDcomment3/27/2026
Electronic voice?

Oh I found out some serious truths last year, spiraled out, and came back already. The world is indeed very weird despite what we’ve been programmed to believe.

r/experiencerscomment3/27/2026
Religion

So do I.. it simply isn't the same concept of source. Religious monotheistic belief systems Source is separate from his creation, my understanding is source is United with creation. Source within Reli…

r/AstralProjectioncomment3/28/2026
Any Christian experiencers in here?

ACIM may have been a project of the MK ULTRA CIA black ops program. We now know through the freedom of information act that Helen's co-worker and sort of frenemy (more enemy than friend much of the ti…

r/experiencerscomment3/28/2026
Why does it take years to realize you’re traumatized? And why does "standard" therapy often miss the point?

Because we're not good enough and it's not bad enough, there's the bleeding needy who need resources more and we're selfish for using any, maybe even frauds. The trauma itself programmed this into us,…

r/CPTSDcomment3/28/2026
How does a partile Saturn-Venus opposition act when sitting right on the ASC/DSC axis?

> An LLM mentioned this is rare Be careful with this. LLMs are programmed to wow people. Venus opposes Saturn at least once a year, so while it’s not super common like, say, Venus opposite the moon, …

r/AskAstrologerscomment3/28/2026
C'è qualcuno qui?

How many years have you done this? What I teach uses tools to assist you like training wheels for a bike. This gives you very real results but it does require you to build a radionics device or buy …

r/lawofattractioncomment3/28/2026
Something I wished I had heard about sooner when I struggled leaving my now nex that would've made me leave a lot earlier.

I cheated once in my life & will hold the memories I'm still even now sat here programmed to be maybe. The worst mistake I made was changing myself & making choices as ultimatums. I didn't expect as…

r/NarcissisticAbusecomment3/29/2026
how to manifest body changes?

Not true those are false limiting beliefs. Everything in this reality is about your beliefs, we’ve just been programmed to think certain things aren’t possible. Humans can literally do things like wal…

r/lawofattractioncomment3/29/2026
Please, I beg you all, help me

I mean, if you're talking about SM beliefs being reprogrammed and that changing your conscious thoughts, then I see your point.

r/JosephMurphycomment3/29/2026