Psychiatry
Though it has hurt others, there’s no denying it’s been helping me.
⚠️ Warning: discussion of death and suicidal ideation.
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Overcoming stress paralysis
Can’t shower, eat right, sleep right? Can’t get yourself to do anything? Phantoms of the future haunting you?
Executive dysfunction and anxiety is a match made in hell. I paid $85 dollars for counseling so you don’t have to.
Mind you, these tips are geared towards those with ADHD. Might still help someone else, though.
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Games I Like
My favorite kinds of games are big on having the player explore beautiful places. Usually they deal with gorgeous, vast lands or castles with hidden cozy areas with the least to zero amount of stress.
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Spacetime
We are creatures that experience time linearly. The universe isn’t so simple, in terms of physics at least. I think of this whenever I discount anything in my past as less real or significant than the present–whenever I’m tempted to “mourn what is gone.”
Sure, it doesn’t change the fact that what’s gone is still gone in my perspective. But it gives me comfort knowing that just because something has passed doesn’t mean it hasn’t existed or “doesn’t exist anymore,” in a way. Just because something is “gone” from my perspective doesn’t mean it was never real. It will have always existed as far as the universe is concerned. The past “still exists” as far as the universe is concerned.
Even if I can’t see it anymore.
At least. Theoretically. Or mathematically. I won’t pretend to understand it completely. Or even sufficiently.
Related concept: growing block universe
Of course, nothing here touches on the idea of “alternate universes” yet. That’s another story.
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Humility
Humility is a trait and practice that I think many can benefit from and are unaware of. The word has often been misconstrued as selling oneself short in my experience.