Anxious brains redirect emotion regulation

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Re: Anxious brains redirect emotion regulation

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Post by xtiansimon » Wed, Aug 23, 2023, 9:59 PM UTC

huimang wrote: post #186

OkayPhysicist wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Fear is the mind killer". Focus spent worrying about the potential consequences of failure is focus not spent on avoiding failure altogether.

Failure in this case ranges from life-altering disabilities or death outright. The emotional toll on your friends and family. The waste of medical resources on you. Yeah, people should have a healthy amount of fear for needlessly dangerous things.

> “The waste of medical resources on you.”

?? There’s nothing unethical about riding a motorcycle.

I ride within 80% of my abilities. I wear full PPE all year round. My moto is maintained to a high standard. I drive defensively. I have taken safety courses, and continued my motorcycle safety training both in and out of the classroom. I am not careless about my life or the lives of others. I drive like everyone is out to kill me, and I’m a gentleman. Want to pass, go ahead.

Morally— I’m not needlessly risking my life or the lives of others. If it becomes necessary, god forbid, that I need life saving medical care, I trust I’m worthy of it, if, for no other reason than I take great care when I’m driving any motorized vehicle.

Shame on you.

Re: Anxious brains redirect emotion regulation

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Post by jyrkesh » Thu, Aug 24, 2023, 6:18 AM UTC

sitkack wrote: post #203

jyrkesh wrote: post #117

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I've shared my experience in being diagnosed as ADHD as an adult already[1][2], but in this context, the net is that I fought even the concept of going on any kind of medication for a long time. I wanted to go hard on lifestyle interventions and all kinds of different "tricks" for working around my constant reshifting to different priorities. Ironically, while I love my therapist still, my psych has been an absolute…

I think it would be wise to disassociate your concept of yourself and your psych. Are you on adderall, have you tested if it works for you? If you are now medicated for ADHD which everyone with symptoms should at least experience. Knowing it even exists and that you can feel that way is extremely grounding. If you are concerned with abuse, do some research and on the drugs they are recommending. I am hypersensitive t…

Yeah, I've been getting regular therapy for years, that's all a part of it. I allude to it in the links, but I've gone hard on going into the gym, building better routines, etc.

I've also taken plenty of steps backwards, but I'd like to hope that's part of the process...

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