Well Heather, I don't know how you do it, but you somehow manage
  to get my "Flow" state going and the words come tumbling out.
  I'm stlll in the process of retraining myself. Sometimes I find
  myself in a toxic, repeating act of a play - where I end up
  saying the same things I don't want to say after hearing the
  same things I don't want to hear - and it's very hard to say
  STOP to yourself and chan...ge rewrite the script. And with
  people close to you, sometimes you can't rewrite the script. All
  you can do is take that scene out of the play altogether. An
  example in my life is this: I have this urge to be Mr. Fix-It.
  With everything. But - I'm either a fast-fixer - or I'm a
  thorough fixer. Fix-it too quick ("ger 'er
  done/bandaid/ducttape.. and it works) or too thorough, "Gotta do
  everything by the book". "