How can you help yourself deal with bad memories using psychological methods? We are real people and no one is perfect. Therefore, there is no need to dramatize, but rather try to help yourself.
Bad and good events happen to each of us. But we tend to keep bad events in mind longer than good ones. And if something bad and stupid happened to us in public, then our worries about this are doubled. Each time, scrolling through the memories of this, we add bright colors with our imagination and conjecture for others how they reacted to this and what they might have thought. Or even worse, we think they remember all this as clearly as we do. But this is not the case. No one will keep this negative in your memory as carefully as you, savoring every detail. You don't even have to strain about it. All of their embarrassments abound, they have no reason and nowhere to keep in their memory and yours.
Time erases clear boundaries and details of what happened, leaving only the very fact that it happened. And over time, people may have doubts about whether it happened with you or with someone else. To make it easier for you to get rid of a bad memory, you can use one of the simplest psychological techniques, but, nevertheless, very effective. For example, take a blank piece of paper and start scribbling on it. Reproduce the picture of what happened in your memory, start walking over the sheet, while the process of remembering is going on, without taking your hands off the sheet. When you're done, look at the piece of paper, there will be ugly curved scribbles on it, they are as ugly as the memory itself. Take this piece of paper in both hands, concentrate, and crumple it with force. Then throw it in the trash. This is how you threw this memory of yours into the trash. After that, you need to reward yourself with something, or be distracted by something pleasant. And we must always remember that we are not robots, but living beings, and that none of us is perfect to such an extent that such moments do not happen to him.
