@samueljenkinson Room fan focused on you directly. The mosquito bites last day(s) (depending on their strength & your reaction to them). The heat lasts only as long as your awake and a fan keeps the mosquitos off you and makes it seem cooler (even though its not)
1/ What if Billie Eilish was a tracksuit-clad gopnitsa singing a translated Russian pop song while mooching around a run-down town in Russia? Wonder no more, because an enterprising Russian has used AI to answer the question. The results actually aren't bad!
Most people think neuroplasticity is always good.
YSK: It isn't always your friend.
🧠 High plasticity in the right environment = healing
🧠 High plasticity in the wrong one = vulnerability
A kid in a violent home may learn fear, shame, and mistrust faster. So sometimes, less plasticity = resilience.
It’s about rewiring safe.
“What we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that, when we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children.
On the other hand, we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us.
So that love contains in it the contradiction: The attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past”
—Martin Bergman
"A psychological structure or function that is created to meet the demands of one environment—the world of childhood—can outlive its usefulness and become maladaptive in another—the life of the adult."
—John Munder Ross, The Sadomasochism of Everyday Life
Meta-Analysis: Trigger warnings don't help people to emotionally prepare for distressing material or to avoid it – the two things they're intended to do. Their main effect seems to be to increase people's anxiety about encountering the material. [Preprint] https://t.co/FWDTwDuyIV