The Anti-Love-Potion! Please read entire details below. Can anyone answer this?

Question

I wrote this answer to someone, based on my OWN experience. She wanted to ease her pain over a major breakup:

Sit down and write out, in great detail, your EXACT feelings for him. Make it as detailed as you possibly can, with details covering your physical, emotional, and all other reactions you've ever felt for him. Make it several pages long, and pour your whole heart and soul into it.

You need not show it to anyone. But within two or three days after you do that, there is a very HIGH probability that those feelings you now have for him will almost entirely have disappeared, and he'll be little more than just another person to you. If so, this is a permanent fix! Those intense feelings you had will very likely NEVER return, ever. And almost immediately, you can get on with your life.

I don't know what makes that happen, but maybe a professional could explain it. It is the equivalent of taking the OPPOSITE of a love potion. Quite amazing!

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Q -- HOW does this work?

To "Raquel_N" -- If you do it, please let us know if it had the same effect, by using the "Edit" option for your answer. This question will be open for a few days, yet. And for me, the effect was there, 100%, **immediately** after I finished putting the account on paper. Remember to do it for a "character," in the 3rd person, rather than in the first person, referring directly to yourself -- if you want to replicate what I did. (I have no idea whether or not this would work if written in the first person. Nor, do I know, as yet, if doing this would work for other people, the way it did for me.)

Answer 1

I would say that for a lot of people their relationships end without closure whatever that might be. Sometimes we get no opportunity to say our peace, to understand our thoughts and emotions following rejection. Writing everything down helps to bring closure to all the emotional baggage and put your relationship in perspective. BTW, this tool used a lot in therapy for all kinds of emotional problems and family crisis.

Answer 2

It is true that the process of thinking through an emotional behavior and writing it down in great detail elicits a cathartic effect.

If we perceive that we have found the source of our angst, our emotions and accompanying thought processes seem to quiet considerably. The mere act of becoming aware makes the problem manageable and less threatening.

Answer 3

WOW
im gonna try this
hope it works;)