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No. 39802998
In talking with my therapist, one thing I mentioned was that there's a particular person I respect (Moony) because he sorta embodies the personality of my former self of 11 years ago, before the chaos those 11 years threw at me finally made me snap.

My therapist asked me why I don't just become that person again rather then enjoying it through a 3rd person view, I wasn't quick to dismiss the idea because I wondered if it was really that simple, can the memories of abuse of all sorts just vanish if one wills it?
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>> No. 39803000
The memories won't just vanish, no.

But if you actually try every day to become a better person, than you really can do so.
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All you gotta do is eat Moony's brain.
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>> No. 39803031
>>39802998

yes - it is that simple

but u don't will bad memories away - you simply stop giving them power by engaging in the things that turn u into the person u want to become, and then they will get smaller and smaller until they r just a footnote in your mind, theoretically vanishing altogether... though in practice they are transformed, but that's a minor detail...
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You can change who you are, but you can't change your history, and neither should you try to.
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By default, we are simply the results of our pasts culminating into one coherent person. But that doesn't mean we're fated to follow any one event. Your therapist has introduced a new event: the idea that you can overcome this abuse if you try. I will also introduce an event. That event being the idea that you can introduce your own events. So far, the events you've given yourself have been...strange, to say the least. Which is probably part of why you need to see a therapist, if I'm to be frank Instead, you need to actively think things that the person you respect might think. If you can enjoy that person from the outside, then simply force yourself to be like that person. Focus your entire mind on being somepony else entirely. Discard anything that you think defines yourself, because that's no longer the person you want to be! Step outside the life you've got and experience a new life. Shock your system into adapting to all these new events. That's how you'll become who you really want to be.

And as a final bit of advice, past events may have shaped us, but the farther in the past they are, the less they effect who we are today. You can always overcome the past, and the harder you try, the faster it'll go.
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