Here's my 2007 guide to avoiding limerence:
-Try to look at the person in a different light, focusing on their bad points.
-If you have AS or OCD, then you're especially prone to none of it working. You may want to consider Cognitive Therapy to reduce that obsessive thought.
-Intentionally piss the person off so whenever you think about them you feel guilty, so you associate guilt with them. Guilt replaces any feelings of limerence, but the problem is since you pissed the person off they won't want to just be friends with you anyway.
-An alternative method, if you're particularly masochistic: if you cut yourself, think of who you're obsessed with when you do it. If this works out right (though it probably won't), then you'll associate the pain with them, and may be able to get over them through that. And if it doesn't work, then at least you have scars to brag about to your friends, and they'll smother you with the kind of attention a poor bastard like you needs.
-Creep them out (intentionally or unintentionally) so they avoid you like hell and there's no chance for anything to develop. No chance = less likelyhood of limerence.
-Suffah in silence, suckah, and whenever it gets bad, write a restricted blog entry. Make it sound as emo as possible. (Trust me, this helps.) Maybe put on some depressing music. My favorite "Depressing blog writing" songs: Evanescence - "The Last Song I'm Wasting on You," Vast - "Flames," Sarah Bettens - "All of this Past," Lisa Germano - "From a Shell," Zeromancer - "New Madonna," Tom McRae - "Ghost of a Shark," and pretty much any Dark Sanctuary song.
-Lie to yourself. A LOT. Manipulate the living s**t out of your brain by telling it that it doesn't care. This takes a while but it can get you in denial for about a month. So be careful when you use it. Like, do it when finals are about to start, because it's a b***h to realize that you were in denial right when you're trying to memorize the convoluted composition of some rock.
-Tell yourself, "Dude, there is NO f*****g HOPE! GET OVER IT! JESUS f*****g CHRIST, YOU ARE PATHETIC!" Make yourself cry if you can manage. Again, strictly for masochists.
-Kill them. Er...actually, don't. That's just wrong.
-Identify what attracts you about them and analyze the living s**t out of it. For example, if you envy something about them, do everything you can to attain that quality for yourself--IN yourself. Not in another person. If they're independent, and you like that, become independent. If they're confident, become confident. Compassionate, become compassionate.
-NEVERNEVERNEVERNEVERNEVER
NEVERNEVER see them. EVER. Avoid them as much as you possibly can. Don't even look at them for a brief second at school if possible, because even a brief second can make you go "Oh gawrsh..." and you're back in lovey dovey mode all over again!
-Stop masturbating to thoughts of them, you perverted f**k!
-Meet new people. Preferably ones that actually like you back.
And check this out, here's one more method:
http://www.angelfire.com/empire/serpentis666/Incubus.html
SUMMON AN INCUBUS OR SUCCUBUS! Non-Satanists need not apply. Which sucks, because I totally would summon a succubus if demons actually existed. Then again, isn't that kind of f****d up? I mean, SUMMONING a person to have a relationship with them? What if they just didn't like you like that? Maybe succubi and incubi aren't terribly picky, or maybe it searches automatically for compatibility like a cupid angel for dating sites or something? That'd actually be hilarious. We Satan trying to perform all his hellish duties and Oh! Look! Some human wants a succubus to play with! "Okay, Mr. Mortal, I'll go search for one that works for you. Searching. Searching. Searching. DONK! Found one!" Satan turns to the succubus (who is probably watching porn, because these are succubi we're talking about). Satan says to her, "I found a mortal for you to seduce! Off you go!" -POOF!-
And finally, my latest method: invent a dream girl that's SO INCREDIBLY AWESOME AND DROOLWORTHY that nobody real could ever possibly match up. Your limerent object will positively pale in comparison. Unfortunately, so will everyone else, and let's face it, you're never going to meet anyone as incredible as the person in your head. And if you did, (s)he probably would be taken, or wouldn't like you, or you two wouldn't work together as much as you think. Sorry, but it's kinda hopeless. But...that's beside the point. The point is, you're over your limerent object, right? Use this only if you want to grow up to be a bitter old person who dies alone.
And what if you've tried everything and none of it works?
....BLAME DISNEY!
22 Feb 2007, 8:38 pm
