![]() ![]() ![]() After a while it becomes easier to extend that out to seeing that people suffer in ways that I can't quite understand right now. Maybe other people have gone through similar stuff, too. If you're not to only one to go through whatever difficult situation in particular, maybe others have gone through the same thing. And it naturally becomes more general if you work at it a bit. I think that the biggest benefit is that this attitude helps make people more compassionate towards others. This is a big plus if you're not inclined towards supernatural explanations. It also doesn't require buying into any supernatural belief systems. It also helps relieve some psychological presure. It's a great way to put things into perspective. There are a lot of other benefits to the attitude of: "I'm not the first one to ever go through this, and I won't be the last." Headaches and queasiness feels small in comparison. I'm able to stay in a good mood when I'm nauseous thanks to having had one of the worst illnesses I've ever had, a few months ago. ![]() So if you're in an anxiety spiral, compare it to the worst emotional distress you've ever felt, and see if it's worse. So if you've already felt something worse, you can calibrate your temporary expectations and snap yourself out of fear loops.Ī shot at the dentist isn't so bad, but mental loops can be. it's hard to imagine a shot at the dentist getting much worse than the worst pain you've ever experienced in your life. If you take an attitude of "I wonder how bad things can get?" then you tend to discover that there's an upper bound on most forms of badness, which did make me feel better.Į.g. When things get tough, I just shrug and try to embrace it. He probably didn't mean it as philosophical advice, but when I read it, I burst out laughing and never really stopped. Interestingly, one of the most effective for me was dang's: There doesn't seem to be any nuanced or precise advice. Maybe my response seems flippant, but it's the core reason I was never able to internalize platitudes. That's good advice, but unfortunately it also applies to situations like "being put to death." > The one piece of advice that has helped me is the thinking that "I'm not the first one to ever go through this, and I won't be the last." No matter if you're fucked in the head, going bankrupt, getting divorced - whatever - you aren't alone and you can either find a solution or find acceptance. And it never drives the development of better options.Įven if someone does try it for themselves, their take-away is that it was hell for them because they aren't crazy. I found it interesting and kind of funny, because we all live in a world familiar with crazy people, casually saying that someone troublesome "should get some help" or if more "empathetic" plaintively ask why nobody is doing anything about the poor untreated and downtrodden wandering the streets.Īnd yet, it's a shock to a normal (more or less) person to find out that such medications, which are cheap and sometimes effective, are not fun.įor some reason, the idea that "crazy pills" range from unpleasant to unbearable torture depending on dosage doesn't suggest itself as an obvious hypothesis to explain why people who obviously need them won't take them. They took a much larger dose than the normally prescribed amount, and it resulted in a vividly recounted seemingly interminable and utterly hellish experience. The one piece of advice that has helped me is the thinking that "I'm not the first one to ever go through this, and I won't be the last." No matter if you're fucked in the head, going bankrupt, getting divorced - whatever - you aren't alone and you can either find a solution or find acceptance.Ī long time ago, I read an account online of someone who was looking for a new recreational drug experience and they got some risperidone, which is a popular antipsychotic. This blog doesn't want to give platitudes like "it gets better" and I can see how they're not really helpful when you're in crisis mode. I have HPPD and see visual snow, but that's about it. I was overwhelmed with dread and thought I had completely fucked my brain forever and all my potential was gone.īut I went to therapy, got better, and my life is completely normal now. My body would just shake, I couldn't sleep and I stayed up until I passed out for an hour, and then my shaking would wake up myself up again. The next few days I didn't know what to do. At one point I was so overstimulated I just lay on my kitchen floor convulsing uncontrollably. The experience was EXTREMELY traumatic and I believed I was dying. When I was 23, I misdosed myself and took 110mg of 4-AcO-DMT. ![]()
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