I am in rowing classes. Today the couch told me "you're here for fun and you are thinking too hard, just row and enjoy your self."
My form got better and I enjoyed myself
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Weirdly enough I thought about doing this at some point.
Because my anxiety has a limit, I already did shock therapy by playing gigs in front of like 150 people or busking.
But just thinking of these things as a fun experiment is maybe a good way to frame it.
That's exposure therapy, shock therapy is...much more literal.
Actually, that's flooding. Flooding is a specific kind of exposure therapy. Exposure therapy is a more general term that includes both flooding and gradual exposure.
IMHO, just see through the whole illusion instead. End the suffering. See that it's all based on false assumptions. Try Sam Harris app "Waking Up". Check out "the ten fetters". If any of those things ring true to you, you're in a good way. Don't take my word for it. Don't take Sams word for it, or Kevins. This is all done by yourself,for yourself. You will know if it's bullshit or not.
Can you provide any more info on the Waking Up app? My teenager has major anxiety issues and would love to have some more tools to help. It looks like a $20/month subscription, but isn't clear what that entails. Is it like podcasts or what?
I would advise against direct awakening for a teenage brain. A strong sense of the "self" is important to develop and nurture in the first years. Weakening that will not be beneficial in the long run for that individual.
The app itself has Sam interviewing established meditation teachers. There are courses from these meditation teachers. Lectures/talks. Tons of guided meditations all divided into different categories/flavors. The purpose of all this is to help towards awakening but it can also be used as "just meditation support".
For a teenager with anxiety i would rather recommend CBT (cognitive behaviour therapy) which I myself have done for anxiety. It really helped a lot! Good luck! ❤️
If you are in a position to interview for jobs for fun, you are privileged.
It’s not about doing it for “fun”, it’s trying to reframe things that people can have a lot of anxiety around because of their importance. When you’re very nervous, you lose your confidence, you might lose your train of thought, you might not get a good night’s rest leading up to it, your stomach could be in knots, etc. your performance suffers and you don’t seem well put together to others. If you can go into an interview with a mindset that it doesn’t matter, that weight is lifted off of you, it helps you keep your cool and you won’t self sabotage.
Yeah, I don't know, to me it feels very similar to the trope of telling a depressed person to just get over it
"Oh you're feeling anxious? Have you tried being not anxious?"
I don't think trying to trick yourself out of anxiety is a valid approach. It is entirely normal to have anxiety over an event that threatens your ability to eat and have a place to sleep - it would be strange if you didn't have some anxiety about that. Acknowledging the anxiety as a relevant and normal reaction to a stressful situation and then addressing that emotion honestly is better.
If you can go into an interview with a mindset that it doesn’t matter, that weight is lifted off of you, it helps you keep your cool and you won’t self sabotage.
The word "if" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.
As someone who does a lot of reframing like this, I'm really struggling to see how this would work at all. For me there would have to be a part of the process that I genuinely could spin as fun to trick my dopamine deprived brain into making the good chems because I don't get that rush most get when they complete a task for it's own sake. Anything fun about the job interview process is something incidentally involved, not part of the process itself. The stakes involved with needing a job to live make it even more difficult to downplay the importance of an interview.
Maybe I'm missing something with thus particular framework?
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Being privileged doesn't really do much to improve one's mental health. It's almost like those are two completely separate things, or something!
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Just fuck it. Fuck everything! 🔥
Do it for the Vine.