Breathing in hefty lungfuls of smoke as I get explosive diarrhea from salad, the sky turns apocalyptic orange while oil companies drill in protected lands, screwworms are eating cattle alive and the president just paid $6 million for rape. And I’m also able to bet on all of it!
I think a really healthy thing for human sociality in a hyper-mediated surveillance culture that blurs the distinction btwn work and leisure time would be to encourage everyone to stop before having any kind of social interaction and decide which category of behavior to perform
my therapist changed my life when he taught me there are 4 types of conversation:
1) small talk (weather, etc)
2) swapping (you tell a story, I tell a story)
3) listening (you tell a story, I listen/validate)
4) problem-solving (you tell me a story, I help solve the problem)
Remember: adult "attachment theory" was developed in the late 2010s primarily as a form of intrasexual competition between psychology majors. You shouldn't allow it to propagate outside of that niche because it is an invasive species that outcompetes other relational frameworks
when you have a family who always was and is this psychopathic to you, people just don’t believe you unless they also had an upbringing like this and are honest with themselves about it. it’s one of those invisible traumas that totally warps your reality and sets you off on an insane trajectory from the minute you’re born & everyone else pretends like they have no idea why you are the way you are. you will only get better the day you acknowledge that almost everyone around you has been playing a sick joke on you your whole life and you aren’t actually crazy at all. in fact, you are the only sane and honest person in the room
I got thousands of rare Cultural Revolution-era photos from a historical archive here in China.
I believe some of these have never been posted online, or only exist behind extremely expensive licenses.
So here they are, for free. Open the thread for more.
it is very odd to realize that CBT sort of drilled into me a tendency to intellectualize my emotions by cognitively reappraising them to death. it’s sort of like i am afraid of thinking in a black & white way so i overcompensate via “nuance” & dissociate myself