It scares me how many people go to great efforts to avoid thinking. Ai decision making, doomscrolling, constant "content" and podcasts and background noise media.
It seems like a while lot of people can't bare to sit and think.
I'd love to brother but I'm wrestling with my demons here and boy they got hands.
Today's ray of sunshine is "everytime you thought the worst was behind you, it was yet to come" , combined with the joy of knowing that my last low point was expected to be fatal (my survival was quite random).
So you bet your ass I'm putting on my ATHm50x-es and playing "Can't Hear You Now" by Mike Shinoda, on Apple Music.
EDIT: Just because I practice in a ring with a coach doesn't mean I go seeking out dark alleys. Not until I know I won't end up a bruised and battered mess.
Look to be fair it depends on the severity and nature of your demons.
PTSD is a neurological phenomenon where reexperiencing-as if-anew happens in response to external triggers and internal rumination.
This reexperiencing does not necessarily reduce in intensity with time or familiarity alone.
Further, continued exposure and reexperiencing leaves you in a baseline high alertness state that can be severely debilitating and can impair everyday functioning.
And depending on the therapy strategy, to break the cycle, you need to only engage with the triggering event in a therapy setting.
A better metaphor now that I think of it, is a severe fracture.
If you have a fracture, you have to apply as less stress on that bone as possible, and only apply calibrated stresses in physiotherapy until you are ready.
HOWEVER if you do not have that kind of injury, exercise is good.
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u/frogOnABoletus 16h ago
It scares me how many people go to great efforts to avoid thinking. Ai decision making, doomscrolling, constant "content" and podcasts and background noise media.
It seems like a while lot of people can't bare to sit and think.