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How to stop hoping for other people's downfalls?
Exactly what the title says. I often catch myself wishing that people close to me should fall back so that I can rise, which is of course, a vicious way of thinking. These are likely intrusive thoughts, much like most of the other ones that I have. I just want them to stop. I hate wishing bad things for other people but I genuinely can't help this; its like internal tourette's or something. If any of you guys struggle with this (which you likely don't), how do you deal with this?
You keep having those intrusive thoughts because there is residual guilt inside you for thinking those thoughts, what's vicious is this cycle. It is also pretty common and happens to people all the time.
What helps is understanding the nature of intrusive thoughts. Your thoughts aren't you. Is this pattern guiding your behaviour towards those peop...... reply