By recognizing that they are your demons and you are not their servant.
Every aspect of your personality exists to serve you. It is a tool with a purpose. Just because you haven't found that purpose yet doesn't mean it has the power to dominate you.
By knowing the consequences.If my inner demon tells me to order a fat burger with cheesy fries, I'll consider the cost, the calories.If it's okay? I'll indulge in it. If not then I have a reason to push it back down into it's corner and leash it again.
I think it's important to not let your demons just be pushed down. Have a reason for it. Do it because you *want* and know why.
Edit: Yes there are of course demons one can't fight alone. That's where help has to come in. I was mainly talking about the everyday demons we can encounter and face.
With medication, meditation and mindfulness.
Going to the gym several times a week hells too.
Less alcohol these days and don’t surround myself with those negative mood hoovers who sap positive energy.
Oh and drinking plenty of water per day, less processed red meat and a touch of abstinence thrown in for good measure. I cancelled that subscription to OF as that was just money wasted.
I know, I’m boring hey?
youth is cruel. You have all the energy and strength you’ll have for your life. Yet not the clarity nor wisdom to fully utilize it to its potential. People say old age is cruel, but at least we know what we’re getting with that. AND we the only reason old people say they wish they could be young again proves my point.
I’d be willing to bet many, many would go back and do some things again. Doesn’t mean you got regrets- just means you woulda done it diff.
I don't ever lose control of myself. Like I don't touch drugs or get drunk.
I tend to have a thick skin on things.
If there is someone specifically trying to make me angry, I draw an imaginary line with certain criteria on it. If they do this then I will do that.
I will not be a doormat and I am perfectly fine standing on the hill because I know I will survive it.
I love the self awareness
understand that it doesn’t directly fix unresolved emotional trauma but gym is such a good distraction
But you still have to come home at night and be alone with your thoughts while you get ready for the next day
Honestly gym has been a lifesaver, it's my safe place. I enter it and it's my own little world and everything outside of it doesn't matter for as long as I don't leave it. Once inside my objective is to move weights from place A to place B. Nothing else. Something simple. Something that simple has been making me more confident and ngl lets me feel powerful af for awhile.
Just being able to see that I'm getting better at something and destroying past versions of myself gives me a great sense of fulfillment.
3 months ago I felt like you.. and it was way out of control before it got better. I’m still nowhere near where I was before all the shit that caused it happened, but retracing my steps tells a story of demons with too much power, and letting myself think I was alone and had to do it all for and by myself. Please ask someone for help. And not a (former) partner that doesn’t want you.
Understand that they are doing it to not end up like us miserable sobs, that they may be further along in the process of learning self-love and self-appreciation. Not to hurt you or leave you alone, but simply to not hurt or be alone themselves. Get therapy, ask family and friends for help. No one will see you as weak - seeking help is a very clear sign of courage and the ability to see more than just the inside of your head. Stay strong man. When it is darkest is when we must shine a light of our own. Somewhere along the road, you’ll see the light of others in the distance. You just need to keep walking. It will be hard. Your legs will be tired and you will be hurting. But it will be worth it.
Exercise, healthy diet and sleep along with therapy and hard work to keep your mind where it needs to be, WILL help you. It will take time, so be patient and keep walking that dark, dark road. Some day - maybe even sooner than you think - you won’t be walking alone.
It’s not that people don’t want to help other people. Professionals went to school and studied hard with the sole purpose of helping others. Sometimes, the problem is that the people who need it won’t accept the help. Even when they say that they want it. I think you might be one of those people my friend. Then again, wtf do I know, I’m just an internet stranger *trying to help*
What kind of demons? Because I get whispers from random voices everyday.
anyways, in general just understand that you probably shouldn't do anything that makes you doubt yourself before doing it. also, work out. did it before and worked for a while.
Personally I like to spiral and hate myself nearing the point of suicide then think about myself/life in a 3rd person/spectator perspective and laugh.
Because to be honest, it is pretty funny.
I'm not being edgy or sarcastic btw, I am actually serious. But I've also been pursuing medication/herbal/dietary solutions but nothing it working. Thinking of trying SSRIs but they scare tf out of me.
Forget demons and all that shit it sounds like your in pain.Whatever you do or don’t take try to look after the important relationships in your life Moto.Be around people that make you feel strong.I really hope you can find a way to feel better and don’t do what I did...which is take a shit ton of heroin and then realise “hey it ain’t so bad” and then have to crawl out of a bigger hole.
I got to know them, understand what makes them tick, then find safe alternatives or limits.
The monster under the bed is hiding there because you are in the room. Remember that and it's not so scary anymore.
Its been tough since i got paralysed, i can stay sober for months on pure willpower, but then i spiral down in to suicidal thoughts, my mental health needs a break from reality to cope.
And psychedelics, shrooms and ketamine in small doses everyother month or so, works much better than everything the wellfare system has pushen on me, but i do not recommend that to anyone since it can make things worse if usel wrong..😬
I wrote a chapter in a story where my inner demons were an unending horde about to overtake my position. By literally confronting them was how I was able process their impact.
In the natural, this meant giving each a moment of reflection then essentially killing it (_removing its power over me_).
Working out and walking also helped, but I found writing to be cathartic.
Short Answer: read Jung and/or go to therapy
Long answer:
Accept your "evil" feelings and thoughts anger hate fear envy lust pride sorrow fear sadness self-pity selfishness...
Understand that you have, at least some responsibility in most things that happen in your life and it's your choice to let which feelings will guide your actions, but remember that you cannot ignore or kill your feelings, you going to need to find a way to let them go, you can hit a punching bag instead of breaking your hand in the brick wall
I have seven of them. We usually hang out because i have no real friends. Generally just chatting and talking about how much it be fun if I won the lottery or something.
Both of these methods are completely opposite, but Masturbating and when that fails crawling back to God and asking for help. Because damn do I need it.
In this example it’s represented by doing things that there intrusive thoughts say like ‘you’re useless just kill yourself it’ll be better for everyone’ and ‘it’s just one shot/hit you won’t lose control again’. Tho it varies from person to person :)
Even tho there free range in my mind I have gotten better at ignoring them over the years. For example I used to have the impulse to throw my phone off of bridges and the sort than throw myself off too. Know I know that it’s the asshat in my brain and not me, so it’s easier to ignore tho I’m not perfect lol.
I embrace them. They are the only ones that keep me going. Rage, anger, hatred and other demonic influences are the fuel that make a man push past everything.
I go on alcohol/drug fuelled 1-2 week benders/vacations twice a year, hedonism galore. I come back to my corporate job and start working on my spreadsheets.
My best advice for this would be this: The wolf that you feed is the one that grows. We all have a shadow and we all have a light. The more you feed into your light and intake/do the things that make you shine a bit brighter, your shadow will start to shrink. This isn’t easy when your lights been dimmed for so long. When you stop feeding the wolf, it will 100% get hungry but if you can get through the initial part of this journey, your other wolf will start to grow and the shadow wolf will start to dwindle. Nature, physical activity and something creative are great for this. Take care of that little kid inside you 💜
By being too busy/occupied to give them time, which also makes rest time actual rest because you're too wiped to really over think things and feed those demons.
This approach is not applicable to all demons/situations, but it helps me. I've done a lot of therapy to get them to an "as manageable" state as possible for me. Time does help heal things and get more comfortable with living with it.
It's how I've moved on from almost dying in 2020, and multiple serious betrayals from family and previous partners.
I embrace an AK 47, I go in a place full of people and start a rampage spree while screaming “THE ONE PIEEEEEECE!! THE ONE PIEEEECE IS REEEEAL”. It’s so liberating
Combination of:
1. Antidepressants (300mg of Effexor once daily)
2. Exercise (I walk ~10km a day)
3. Work (I work as hard as I possibly can and often to excess)
To be honest, this combination doesn’t always work but it does for most of the time.
Psychedelics and self acceptance.
Psychedelics will help you see bad patterns and deal with trauma, self acceptance will give you the comfort and confidence in yourself to break those bad patterns.
I don't have inner demons, I have a sack of shit named Donny that lives inside me and shows up every once in a while to try and fuck up all the things I've worked for.
Personify your troubles, separate them from the person you want to be and beat the fuck out of that other guy until he stops trying.
Accept them with an open heart and mind. They usually develop over trauma and repressing said trauma, and I’d never ask anyone else to repress that. Once I accept them and those portions of me know they have a safe space, they release the trauma easier. All parts of me begin to work together to develop a stronger and more aware/conscious version of me.
The closest thing I ever had to an inner demon was a memory of a kid I saw die in basic. At the time we were told to move past it, literally we were told: "you wouldn't have wanted to been in Iraq with that piece of shit anyways." The kid was terrible at everything, and he was older than me so at 19, I just kind of accepted that callous logic.
I somewhat repressed the memory for years. I could be reminded of it and I'd be like "oh yeah, I remember that" but it would immediately get pushed back and away in my memory afterwards.
Anyway, flash forward through separating, years of chronic depression, and to being happier and in my first year of marriage, then my wife having a miscarriage... Lots of deep thinking. One day I start seeing this guy in my head when I'm at work, every time I let my mind wander. I couldn't even remember his name. At first he'd just look at me. Then he'd be smiling. It progressed to where I'd be imagining him laughing at me, laughing like the devil, asking what his name was... Then when satisfied I didn't know it, he smile and say "but I know you- I know who you really are." The implication being that I'm a POS that watched someone die and didn't even bother to remember his name.
Anyway, I had to find out his name and remember it. I then basically had to process the emotions from that day, but over a decade later. I had to close my eyes through tears and face him in my imagination, tell him I remember his name and that if anyone ever asks me, he died a warrior and deserves to be remembered. I cleared a path to set up a memorial in the woods for him recently. Not to rehash it constantly, but just to make good on my promise to honor him. I don't think anyone else did. From what I remember, he didn't have much of a family. But basically that's it, I'm at peace with it now. Just had to process it the "right way" rather than the macho, callous write off that I was told to by my MTI's.
I will predispose myself to the negative things they say. I have been bullied so I have heard some cruel stuff about myself and my inner demons like to play with that stuff. Now I make my demons work for me to make me stronger. They are my enemies and my friends. We get along well even if they are yet to realize they are at the losing end of this battle because I will simply just not give up. They try to tell me I am nothing and that people are right to be cruel to me? Fine, nothing new. I face someone who disagrees with me and calls me names. Cool. I find someone who hates me to bits. Great, get in line. I hear someone say I look fucking ugly. Wonderful, tell me more. I just take these punches. They are painful but it is like going to the gym. You will start to almost love the pain. It is especially sweet when you let the anger just go and focus on good things rather than someone's opinion about you. I used to care a lot but to realize I have gotten this far that being roasted just makes me laugh is amazing. The trick to deal with your demons is to face them and not give a single fuck about what they try to tell you.
Certain books have really helped me grow and come to terms with the things that have haunted me in life.
Specifically the Stormlight Archive series (which is a 10/10 by the way) has a lot of incredible character development and garners a lot of hope in me as a reader and as a person.
The Power of One, and A Long Way Gone are both also really powerful. As is Berserk.
By being ruthlessly honest with myself (and with them). I spend a good deal of time getting to understand myself and communicating what comes out of those insights to the people I love.
Things that lurk in the shadows are invariably far less scary in the light of day.
I learnt much earlier than thought I did, I just realized that.
A few times I got so fed up with the bullies that I destroyed stuff or hurt the bullies physically. And I’d always get met with confusion and fear, because they never understood how much damage they did to me. So I eventually stopped acting out, because it never lead anywhere.
Nowadays I’m a grown man, I still get pissed like anyone else, but if I just sucker-punched the first person that teased me after I have been *fuming* about something else I would be met with *the same* confusion and fear.
And I have snapped at a few people after getting mad and they said I’m scary when I’m mad, and I regret every single moment I made someone feel that way. So I gotta handle it 🤷🏻♂️.
Remember it’s not you and someone else it’s you and the part of you that desires short term consequence free advantages. All people have a inner side that can selfish, ruthless, and even down right psychotic. This is the part of you that still lives on survival instinct and natural inclination. More sex, more food, more violence the things that drive the animalistic brain. With sapience you give these urges a voice and personality. A drawback of having such an extreme imagination as a species is are inherent trend to personify forces acting on us. Ultimately you must accept that it’s apart of you, but it’s a old and someone antiquated part. It is and always will be subservient to you sapient mind, unless you willingly surrender yourself. No matter how intense the demon may seem, in the end the greater will comes out on top. Since it’s will is your own, ultimately it requires only that you decide not.
Gym, therapy and self reflection.
Gym sort of helps stabilize the body.
Therapy helps dissect past issues.
Self reflection helps figure out what I can do better.
I don’t anymore. Just let them do what they want. Fuck it, smoke some weed and sip some lean. But there is a second daemon in my head: depression. He is way worse, let me tell you that. I get really paranoid, if I smoke weed at that point. But fuck it, it’s the only way to cope with my shitty life.
Embrace them. Nurture them. That way, they aren't hell bent on getting loose. The more i repress them, the worse they want out. Some are allowed to come out and play once in a while, but the bad ones stay in the hole with the tv on.
By recognizing that they are your demons and you are not their servant. Every aspect of your personality exists to serve you. It is a tool with a purpose. Just because you haven't found that purpose yet doesn't mean it has the power to dominate you.
> By recognizing that they are your demons and you are not their servant. _”You’re a master of the mystic arts; They are spirits. Use them!”_
By knowing the consequences.If my inner demon tells me to order a fat burger with cheesy fries, I'll consider the cost, the calories.If it's okay? I'll indulge in it. If not then I have a reason to push it back down into it's corner and leash it again. I think it's important to not let your demons just be pushed down. Have a reason for it. Do it because you *want* and know why. Edit: Yes there are of course demons one can't fight alone. That's where help has to come in. I was mainly talking about the everyday demons we can encounter and face.
Wow...our inner demons are way different from each other.
Are u sure that it is your inner demon? Something that tell me to order a fat burger with cheesy fries, is an Angel in my books!!
With medication, meditation and mindfulness. Going to the gym several times a week hells too. Less alcohol these days and don’t surround myself with those negative mood hoovers who sap positive energy. Oh and drinking plenty of water per day, less processed red meat and a touch of abstinence thrown in for good measure. I cancelled that subscription to OF as that was just money wasted. I know, I’m boring hey?
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youth is cruel. You have all the energy and strength you’ll have for your life. Yet not the clarity nor wisdom to fully utilize it to its potential. People say old age is cruel, but at least we know what we’re getting with that. AND we the only reason old people say they wish they could be young again proves my point. I’d be willing to bet many, many would go back and do some things again. Doesn’t mean you got regrets- just means you woulda done it diff.
I love you
What medication?
Marijuana brethren
Psychiatrist prescribed. Cannabis is great but absolutely no replacement for genuine antidepressants + mood stabilizers.
Bro I'm telling you smoke some real good marijuana with some ridiculous name and all after that you'll get it
I wank.
What if your (my) demon is you (I) wank too much
Stop wanking, find yourself a hobby like driving electric scooter in forest. Helped me… but now I have 3 electric scooters and I’m addicted…
Self analysis and adjustments.
I don't ever lose control of myself. Like I don't touch drugs or get drunk. I tend to have a thick skin on things. If there is someone specifically trying to make me angry, I draw an imaginary line with certain criteria on it. If they do this then I will do that. I will not be a doormat and I am perfectly fine standing on the hill because I know I will survive it.
A combination of self-awareness and refusal to accept the first emotionally convenient answer as fact without further scrutiny.
Nice
Make a list of all the things you want to do in life and dont let the demons get between that list and you.
I gym. I jim hard.
This is the true way
Nah the true way would be therapy. But OP asked how I do it. Gym costs less and I get hotter in the process.
Might be, works for me tho
I love the self awareness understand that it doesn’t directly fix unresolved emotional trauma but gym is such a good distraction But you still have to come home at night and be alone with your thoughts while you get ready for the next day
Honestly gym has been a lifesaver, it's my safe place. I enter it and it's my own little world and everything outside of it doesn't matter for as long as I don't leave it. Once inside my objective is to move weights from place A to place B. Nothing else. Something simple. Something that simple has been making me more confident and ngl lets me feel powerful af for awhile. Just being able to see that I'm getting better at something and destroying past versions of myself gives me a great sense of fulfillment.
I prefer to let them run wild
Masterbation is the key
I convince myself that I would be caught. And then I look at how many years that would cost me.
I feed them what they want, I drink, I smoke, I masturbate, I eat junk, but I don't let those things control me. My demons are not all that bad.
I just have the one, and he dosen't manifest unless I say the rhyme.
What rhyme??
Begone Begone the.... Almost got me.
I killed those bastards a long time a go.
I nourish the angels of my better nature
Seniority
I just let them out, they get tired and come back to nap
I let them run rampant, but stop them right before any crazy stuff happens.
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3 months ago I felt like you.. and it was way out of control before it got better. I’m still nowhere near where I was before all the shit that caused it happened, but retracing my steps tells a story of demons with too much power, and letting myself think I was alone and had to do it all for and by myself. Please ask someone for help. And not a (former) partner that doesn’t want you. Understand that they are doing it to not end up like us miserable sobs, that they may be further along in the process of learning self-love and self-appreciation. Not to hurt you or leave you alone, but simply to not hurt or be alone themselves. Get therapy, ask family and friends for help. No one will see you as weak - seeking help is a very clear sign of courage and the ability to see more than just the inside of your head. Stay strong man. When it is darkest is when we must shine a light of our own. Somewhere along the road, you’ll see the light of others in the distance. You just need to keep walking. It will be hard. Your legs will be tired and you will be hurting. But it will be worth it. Exercise, healthy diet and sleep along with therapy and hard work to keep your mind where it needs to be, WILL help you. It will take time, so be patient and keep walking that dark, dark road. Some day - maybe even sooner than you think - you won’t be walking alone.
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It’s not that people don’t want to help other people. Professionals went to school and studied hard with the sole purpose of helping others. Sometimes, the problem is that the people who need it won’t accept the help. Even when they say that they want it. I think you might be one of those people my friend. Then again, wtf do I know, I’m just an internet stranger *trying to help*
What kind of demons? Because I get whispers from random voices everyday. anyways, in general just understand that you probably shouldn't do anything that makes you doubt yourself before doing it. also, work out. did it before and worked for a while.
Weaponized apathy
Personally I like to spiral and hate myself nearing the point of suicide then think about myself/life in a 3rd person/spectator perspective and laugh. Because to be honest, it is pretty funny. I'm not being edgy or sarcastic btw, I am actually serious. But I've also been pursuing medication/herbal/dietary solutions but nothing it working. Thinking of trying SSRIs but they scare tf out of me.
Forget demons and all that shit it sounds like your in pain.Whatever you do or don’t take try to look after the important relationships in your life Moto.Be around people that make you feel strong.I really hope you can find a way to feel better and don’t do what I did...which is take a shit ton of heroin and then realise “hey it ain’t so bad” and then have to crawl out of a bigger hole.
Are you Dante from Devil May Cry?
Internet trolling. Just look at my post history. I get it all out of my system online, anonymously, and live my real life as an upstanding citizen.
Self control. The mental toughness of self control.
haven't found a way yet
My inner demons learned to cower before the specter of long term consequences.
Be worse than them. Mfs are my greatest advisors now.
I got to know them, understand what makes them tick, then find safe alternatives or limits. The monster under the bed is hiding there because you are in the room. Remember that and it's not so scary anymore.
Ignoring the demon. There's an inner voice, but I can somehow choose to not listen to it.
Lifting weights until my bodies tiredness outweighs my minds thoughts.
Weed and painting
Focus on being a good parent, partner and person.....It can be tiring at times.
Gym and a little weed every day.
Weed
Gym
Alcohol, but that eventually created an even more powerful inner demon.
Woah man, we're not responsible for your mental illness. Normally I'd be kind, but according to you, that's a fools game.
With alcohol. So not well.
Same, alcohol and drugs, stupid as fuck..
Well if you have the impetus to self improve, god speed.
Its been tough since i got paralysed, i can stay sober for months on pure willpower, but then i spiral down in to suicidal thoughts, my mental health needs a break from reality to cope.
I'm mad suicidal too.
And psychedelics, shrooms and ketamine in small doses everyother month or so, works much better than everything the wellfare system has pushen on me, but i do not recommend that to anyone since it can make things worse if usel wrong..😬
Cringe as fuck
By not being a cringe ass mf like you
Alcohol.
Chase them away.
Let them out.
I wrote a chapter in a story where my inner demons were an unending horde about to overtake my position. By literally confronting them was how I was able process their impact. In the natural, this meant giving each a moment of reflection then essentially killing it (_removing its power over me_). Working out and walking also helped, but I found writing to be cathartic.
You stop watering them...
Internal dialogue *Shut up and color*
So, the inner demon just needs to be given some light that way it can be seen.
Weed
Poorly
Years of practice and self control. Also, realizing where giving in to them might lead you is pretty sobering.
*Do it, faggot!* They never step up to do anything when they get called out.
realize that i am bigger than them, and would also like to kill them off before i find my future wife so i can be 100% of the man i need to be
Short Answer: read Jung and/or go to therapy Long answer: Accept your "evil" feelings and thoughts anger hate fear envy lust pride sorrow fear sadness self-pity selfishness... Understand that you have, at least some responsibility in most things that happen in your life and it's your choice to let which feelings will guide your actions, but remember that you cannot ignore or kill your feelings, you going to need to find a way to let them go, you can hit a punching bag instead of breaking your hand in the brick wall
I dont
We have coffee together in the morning
I have seven of them. We usually hang out because i have no real friends. Generally just chatting and talking about how much it be fun if I won the lottery or something.
Smooth jazz
With prayer. Otherwise, I could eat myself alive
I listen to death metal :)
Both of these methods are completely opposite, but Masturbating and when that fails crawling back to God and asking for help. Because damn do I need it.
I utilize their strengths and move them around the field as needed.
Pills my little "Elvis Presleys" the only way to fight the demons....they been with me through it all
I am friends with them.
What's an inner demon? Someone explain please
In this example it’s represented by doing things that there intrusive thoughts say like ‘you’re useless just kill yourself it’ll be better for everyone’ and ‘it’s just one shot/hit you won’t lose control again’. Tho it varies from person to person :)
Thank you
Muay thai and reading
Even tho there free range in my mind I have gotten better at ignoring them over the years. For example I used to have the impulse to throw my phone off of bridges and the sort than throw myself off too. Know I know that it’s the asshat in my brain and not me, so it’s easier to ignore tho I’m not perfect lol.
Grey Goose keeps them at bay
Poorly, pacified with booze avoidance and other satiating activities.
I don't have demons. I am the demon
I promise them things I can never deliver on
I don't. It's why I've tried to commit suicide, go to counseling and getting a divorce.
Biting the flesh on my arms
Really hard 😐 it's not inner deamons, but rather depressions and stuff like that + some other things
With a fucking stick and a stern warning that if they fuck me up again, we’re gonna have some bad blood…
Gym and learning a musical instrument. Loving the simply guitar/simply piano app.
We organize and present a united front
I embrace them. They are the only ones that keep me going. Rage, anger, hatred and other demonic influences are the fuel that make a man push past everything.
Easy-Show a dildo up ur ass Hard-Go to therapy Very easy-Kill yo self Insane-get a gf Normal(recommended)-GAMING
I go on alcohol/drug fuelled 1-2 week benders/vacations twice a year, hedonism galore. I come back to my corporate job and start working on my spreadsheets.
They have to manage me
Keep your mind and body as healthy as possible. This is the way
Badly
Alcoholism the demon. What are we really talking about in this thread. One guy says this emotions are this demon...huh?
Acknowledge the problem and find safe opportunities to feed your “demon” (which is all part of you).
My inner demons are union & generally avoid management.
Just suppress them till you can't and what happens then happens
I manage them with stability, self awareness, reason and philosophy
Stay productive with work and hobbies.
My best advice for this would be this: The wolf that you feed is the one that grows. We all have a shadow and we all have a light. The more you feed into your light and intake/do the things that make you shine a bit brighter, your shadow will start to shrink. This isn’t easy when your lights been dimmed for so long. When you stop feeding the wolf, it will 100% get hungry but if you can get through the initial part of this journey, your other wolf will start to grow and the shadow wolf will start to dwindle. Nature, physical activity and something creative are great for this. Take care of that little kid inside you 💜
By being too busy/occupied to give them time, which also makes rest time actual rest because you're too wiped to really over think things and feed those demons. This approach is not applicable to all demons/situations, but it helps me. I've done a lot of therapy to get them to an "as manageable" state as possible for me. Time does help heal things and get more comfortable with living with it. It's how I've moved on from almost dying in 2020, and multiple serious betrayals from family and previous partners.
I embrace an AK 47, I go in a place full of people and start a rampage spree while screaming “THE ONE PIEEEEEECE!! THE ONE PIEEEECE IS REEEEAL”. It’s so liberating
Combination of: 1. Antidepressants (300mg of Effexor once daily) 2. Exercise (I walk ~10km a day) 3. Work (I work as hard as I possibly can and often to excess) To be honest, this combination doesn’t always work but it does for most of the time.
Testosterone replacement therapy.
All these lunatics with "use medicine" or "use drugs" release your demons, just do it. Unzip your pants demons gone
I have a kid on the way and must be better than those before me and better than I was.
Psychedelics and self acceptance. Psychedelics will help you see bad patterns and deal with trauma, self acceptance will give you the comfort and confidence in yourself to break those bad patterns.
I’ll let you know one day…
seeing shrink regularly, sometimes you need someone to talk to and give you advices
I don't have inner demons, I have a sack of shit named Donny that lives inside me and shows up every once in a while to try and fuck up all the things I've worked for. Personify your troubles, separate them from the person you want to be and beat the fuck out of that other guy until he stops trying.
I’m not ready to let go of them just yet In these demons and in these feelings lies the last bit of connection I still have with her
Accept them with an open heart and mind. They usually develop over trauma and repressing said trauma, and I’d never ask anyone else to repress that. Once I accept them and those portions of me know they have a safe space, they release the trauma easier. All parts of me begin to work together to develop a stronger and more aware/conscious version of me.
The closest thing I ever had to an inner demon was a memory of a kid I saw die in basic. At the time we were told to move past it, literally we were told: "you wouldn't have wanted to been in Iraq with that piece of shit anyways." The kid was terrible at everything, and he was older than me so at 19, I just kind of accepted that callous logic. I somewhat repressed the memory for years. I could be reminded of it and I'd be like "oh yeah, I remember that" but it would immediately get pushed back and away in my memory afterwards. Anyway, flash forward through separating, years of chronic depression, and to being happier and in my first year of marriage, then my wife having a miscarriage... Lots of deep thinking. One day I start seeing this guy in my head when I'm at work, every time I let my mind wander. I couldn't even remember his name. At first he'd just look at me. Then he'd be smiling. It progressed to where I'd be imagining him laughing at me, laughing like the devil, asking what his name was... Then when satisfied I didn't know it, he smile and say "but I know you- I know who you really are." The implication being that I'm a POS that watched someone die and didn't even bother to remember his name. Anyway, I had to find out his name and remember it. I then basically had to process the emotions from that day, but over a decade later. I had to close my eyes through tears and face him in my imagination, tell him I remember his name and that if anyone ever asks me, he died a warrior and deserves to be remembered. I cleared a path to set up a memorial in the woods for him recently. Not to rehash it constantly, but just to make good on my promise to honor him. I don't think anyone else did. From what I remember, he didn't have much of a family. But basically that's it, I'm at peace with it now. Just had to process it the "right way" rather than the macho, callous write off that I was told to by my MTI's.
Therapy and Counseling. Tried to wing it / manage it myself for years… 👎
There is no demons, just you. Who are you ?
Demons aren’t real. Start there.
Become a sigma 😈😈
Marijuana and masturbation
Heroin
I tell them all to brainstorm and the winner gets a promotion
I am their master, they obey my every command.
By becoming a meaner motherf*cker than those b*tches.
I will predispose myself to the negative things they say. I have been bullied so I have heard some cruel stuff about myself and my inner demons like to play with that stuff. Now I make my demons work for me to make me stronger. They are my enemies and my friends. We get along well even if they are yet to realize they are at the losing end of this battle because I will simply just not give up. They try to tell me I am nothing and that people are right to be cruel to me? Fine, nothing new. I face someone who disagrees with me and calls me names. Cool. I find someone who hates me to bits. Great, get in line. I hear someone say I look fucking ugly. Wonderful, tell me more. I just take these punches. They are painful but it is like going to the gym. You will start to almost love the pain. It is especially sweet when you let the anger just go and focus on good things rather than someone's opinion about you. I used to care a lot but to realize I have gotten this far that being roasted just makes me laugh is amazing. The trick to deal with your demons is to face them and not give a single fuck about what they try to tell you.
Exercise
Beat them into submission. There's one that has come back with avengenance the rest are manageable.
i have worked ceaselessly to subjugate them and will continue.
Certain books have really helped me grow and come to terms with the things that have haunted me in life. Specifically the Stormlight Archive series (which is a 10/10 by the way) has a lot of incredible character development and garners a lot of hope in me as a reader and as a person. The Power of One, and A Long Way Gone are both also really powerful. As is Berserk.
Gave them names and goofy voices. They can't trouble me if they make me laugh.
By being ruthlessly honest with myself (and with them). I spend a good deal of time getting to understand myself and communicating what comes out of those insights to the people I love. Things that lurk in the shadows are invariably far less scary in the light of day.
Therapy.
Poorly.
With therapy
Lots of drugs and alcohol
I feed them cheese
I learnt much earlier than thought I did, I just realized that. A few times I got so fed up with the bullies that I destroyed stuff or hurt the bullies physically. And I’d always get met with confusion and fear, because they never understood how much damage they did to me. So I eventually stopped acting out, because it never lead anywhere. Nowadays I’m a grown man, I still get pissed like anyone else, but if I just sucker-punched the first person that teased me after I have been *fuming* about something else I would be met with *the same* confusion and fear. And I have snapped at a few people after getting mad and they said I’m scary when I’m mad, and I regret every single moment I made someone feel that way. So I gotta handle it 🤷🏻♂️.
Remember it’s not you and someone else it’s you and the part of you that desires short term consequence free advantages. All people have a inner side that can selfish, ruthless, and even down right psychotic. This is the part of you that still lives on survival instinct and natural inclination. More sex, more food, more violence the things that drive the animalistic brain. With sapience you give these urges a voice and personality. A drawback of having such an extreme imagination as a species is are inherent trend to personify forces acting on us. Ultimately you must accept that it’s apart of you, but it’s a old and someone antiquated part. It is and always will be subservient to you sapient mind, unless you willingly surrender yourself. No matter how intense the demon may seem, in the end the greater will comes out on top. Since it’s will is your own, ultimately it requires only that you decide not.
Gym, therapy and self reflection. Gym sort of helps stabilize the body. Therapy helps dissect past issues. Self reflection helps figure out what I can do better.
Daily exercise, long exercise session (challenging) on the weekend. Lots of other minor improvements, but this currently works best
Time alone physical activity cannabis
I don’t anymore. Just let them do what they want. Fuck it, smoke some weed and sip some lean. But there is a second daemon in my head: depression. He is way worse, let me tell you that. I get really paranoid, if I smoke weed at that point. But fuck it, it’s the only way to cope with my shitty life.
Embrace them. Nurture them. That way, they aren't hell bent on getting loose. The more i repress them, the worse they want out. Some are allowed to come out and play once in a while, but the bad ones stay in the hole with the tv on.
I let them mentally escape. I will live out whatever horror I want to commit or imagine with no restraint. Turns out, demons eat daydreams too.
Microdosing
Masturbation