Anxious brains redirect emotion regulation
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#2so we should be avoiding avoiding?
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#3Fascinating study.
For those who didn't read any of it: anxious people's brains use a different area when regulating emotions. Unfortunately the connection to this area may be more easily saturated during high emotional states.
So, over stressed/anxious brains appear to have a different routing setup than everyone else. Very interesting find!
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#4Dealing with stuff is dumb. Thank you, non_fpi secondary system, the round file of my brain.
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#5It's always fear, isn't it?
We're afraid to approach people, afraid to ask for help, afraid that someone might react in the worst possible way or something really bad might happen.
But obviously, it never happens the way we imagine. Reality is 100% of the time, different from our imagination and yet, many of us still fail to remember that.
Every good opportunity that I ever got, was from me coming out of my comfort zone and avoiding to avoid situations.
It's important to remember, anxiety is a useful defense mechanism, but not 99% of the time.
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#6so we should be avoiding avoiding?
Basically, yes.
Re: Anxious brains redirect emotion regulation
#7It's always fear, isn't it? We're afraid to approach people, afraid to ask for help, afraid that someone might react in the worst possible way or something really bad might happen. But obviously, it never happens the way we imagine. Reality is 100% of the time, different from our imagination and yet, many of us still fail to remember that. Every good opportunity that I ever got, was from me coming out of my comfort z…
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Re: Anxious brains redirect emotion regulation
#8It's always fear, isn't it? We're afraid to approach people, afraid to ask for help, afraid that someone might react in the worst possible way or something really bad might happen. But obviously, it never happens the way we imagine. Reality is 100% of the time, different from our imagination and yet, many of us still fail to remember that. Every good opportunity that I ever got, was from me coming out of my comfort z…
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Re: Anxious brains redirect emotion regulation
#9It's always fear, isn't it? We're afraid to approach people, afraid to ask for help, afraid that someone might react in the worst possible way or something really bad might happen. But obviously, it never happens the way we imagine. Reality is 100% of the time, different from our imagination and yet, many of us still fail to remember that. Every good opportunity that I ever got, was from me coming out of my comfort z…
Spot on. This hit me a few weeks ago when I was considering a long workout class ln Peloton. I was hesitant to hit the start button because it was late, I was tired, etc. Then I realized that it was genuinely harder to hit play than to actually do the class.
Literally I've done thousands of workouts and have never regretted one, yet every time there's this negotiation to not do it. I am connecting that to your "reality is different 100% of the time" point.
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#10This is just tedious. The electro-chemical map of the brain that is built and used to study it, is so primitive.
Almost certainly, "the brain" tunes itself to its environment and inner states from a preformed inner structure through evolution. A lot of what is in the brain, is not actually to be found in the brain, or by studying it materially. The "formwork" that formed it, is lost in evolutionary time.
Unfortunately there is no way to impute the formwork from the form, like say it would be possible to (mostly accurately) impute what formwork created a square column or cast a piece of iron.
"The brain" is not in any way shaped like a physical object, and the formwork that formed it is infinitely complex.