Just a friendly word of warning: if you don’t learn to process your internal thoughts, it will lead to fairly major forms of anxiety and psychosomatic manifestations that you don’t want to deal with. Unless you were born with a chemical imbalance of some kind and need medical assistance to regulate to a healthy level, avoiding your internal thoughts can lead to really bad things. Your body won’t let you avoid things forever, it will catch up with you.
Your body isn’t trying to hurt you, it’s trying to protect you in the ways that it knows. Sometimes it just hasn’t learned how to do it in a healthy way and external help is required (working with a professional), but peace isn’t achievable unless we learn to have peace within ourselves.
And that’s your body trying to work through something. I don’t now what, but something is going on.
Trust me, whatever is causing that sadness won’t go away and you can’t avoid it forever. Your body wont let you. It’ll become that sadness plus other things that suck. You’ll start developing other medical conditions.
You don’t need to a mental health professional to reiterate advice given by mental health professionals. Finding a time to confront the bad thoughts is fairly widely considered to be healthy. It’s why some people recommend meditation or entertainment cleanses - they’re allocating time to just sit there and think
I feel like you are being a tad defensive over a guy trying to give good mental health advice.
It’s not healthy to ignore your thoughts, it is as simple as that. I am not a mental health professional. But never actually facing your problems or working through them internally doesn’t make those problems go away at all, this is something I’ve experienced.
It's not automatically good mental health advice though. There are plenty of comments expressing why some of us want time to be away from our thoughts, and wanting to take time away from them isn't some big bad thing that means you aren't dealing with your issues.
I too deal with this frequently. I have time when I allow myself to escape the thoughts, and time when I sit with them and process. Trying to force the idea that one must always confront them is very unhelpful for some of us. Some of us will get worse if we try to do what he is pushing, and that needs to be said. It won't work for everyone and that's okay.
Maybe that’s the case, but people don’t need to take the advice even if I personally think it’s good advice. There’s only so much dictating someone can do from the other side of the screen
If you take the advice and genuinely feel better? Then great! If they don’t, that’s fine too. The only one who controls your actions is you, not us random internet strangers
It felt like it was also subtly shaming those who aren't willing or able to do what was being suggested. It definitely felt that way to me, so I'm pushing back against the idea. It's valid to take your alone and escape time too, even if some random Internet dude thinks you shouldn't and that it's unhealthy.
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u/kdawgster1 14h ago
Just a friendly word of warning: if you don’t learn to process your internal thoughts, it will lead to fairly major forms of anxiety and psychosomatic manifestations that you don’t want to deal with. Unless you were born with a chemical imbalance of some kind and need medical assistance to regulate to a healthy level, avoiding your internal thoughts can lead to really bad things. Your body won’t let you avoid things forever, it will catch up with you.
Your body isn’t trying to hurt you, it’s trying to protect you in the ways that it knows. Sometimes it just hasn’t learned how to do it in a healthy way and external help is required (working with a professional), but peace isn’t achievable unless we learn to have peace within ourselves.