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Re: Playing video games can help to reduce stress and anxiety, and improve mood

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Post by galleywest200 »

codespin wrote: post #128
sacnoradhq wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try writing or coding for fun. Caffeine, while increasing focus, ups anxiety and cardio load. Exercise (HIIT) I find is better at increasing focus and decreasing anxiety.

Replacing even a small amount of your gaming time with consistent exercise goes so far. Once you realize that you can actually achieve anything you set your mind to just by making a routine you will find yourself wanting to shift the time and effort going into games into real world success.

Just remember the whole "all work and no play" thing though.

Re: Playing video games can help to reduce stress and anxiety, and improve mood

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Post by HervalFreire »

r3trohack3r wrote: post #44

I thought this was going to be an article about optimism ("geeking out" as in getting excited about things). I acknowledge that I'm responding to the headline and not the meat of the article. I've recently (past ~5 years) stopped viewing the world pessimistically. I don't believe it's because I'm blindly optimistic, but because I didn't have the perspective to understand our ancestor's problems and how good of a life…

There was a science experiment where they took pessimists and optimists and had them rate themselves from one to ten in terms of looks.

Then they had another external group of people rate them based off of the same 1 to 10 scale to get an unbiased baseline.

Turns out pessimists had a more accurate and realistic rating around how good they looked. While optimists had ratings that were wildly overblown. There are other experiments that measured other things related to these two groups of people.

It turns out optimists are, happier, have higher salaries and are much more successful in life while pessimists are more likely to be clinically depressed.

This experiment tells us a dark truth about human nature. We lie to ourselves to stay sane. We construct illusions to protect ourselves from fully experiencing the cruel reality of life.

Optimism is a special kind of blindness. It's blindness that blinds you from being aware you're blind.

So look deeply at yourself. Are you happy? Are you optimistic? If so then that is in itself a statistical statement about how delusional and intelligent you actually are. Can you handle the truth?

I wonder how this post will get voted? Down for being depressing and negative? Or up for being truthful?

Re: Playing video games can help to reduce stress and anxiety, and improve mood

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Post by 908B64B197 »

skyyler wrote: post #105
hypertele-Xii wrote: post #104

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It's reality.

And in your day-to-day life, how does a deep understanding of the psyops being run against you and your countrymen do anything to help? Knowledge is for action.

Would you say ignorance is strength then?

Re: Playing video games can help to reduce stress and anxiety, and improve mood

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Post by 908B64B197 »

hypertele-Xii wrote: post #125
skyyler wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And in your day-to-day life, how does a deep understanding of the psyops being run against you and your countrymen do anything to help? Knowledge is for action.

Your rights are being eroded, your purchase power is being drained, society around you is slowly collapsing. Change that happens slowly is insidious to notice, but it surely is impossible if you choose to actively ignore it... until it becomes unbearable, and then it's even costlier to act.

You will own nothing, and be happy.

Re: Playing video games can help to reduce stress and anxiety, and improve mood

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Post by skyyler »

hypertele-Xii wrote: post #125
skyyler wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And in your day-to-day life, how does a deep understanding of the psyops being run against you and your countrymen do anything to help? Knowledge is for action.

Your rights are being eroded, your purchase power is being drained, society around you is slowly collapsing. Change that happens slowly is insidious to notice, but it surely is impossible if you choose to actively ignore it... until it becomes unbearable, and then it's even costlier to act.

So are you doing anything about it?

Re: Playing video games can help to reduce stress and anxiety, and improve mood

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Post by skyyler »

908B64B197 wrote: post #98
skyyler wrote: post #94

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This is the stuff that is exhausting. Why focus on it? What good does it bring to you?

"Why keep looking at the stars through these telescopes? We all know the Earth is at the center of the Universe, the Pope said so. What good does it bring to you?"

I find it disingenuous to conflate “consuming news media” with “looking at the stars through telescopes”…

Re: Playing video games can help to reduce stress and anxiety, and improve mood

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Post by r3trohack3r »

HervalFreire wrote: post #132
r3trohack3r wrote: post #44

I thought this was going to be an article about optimism ("geeking out" as in getting excited about things). I acknowledge that I'm responding to the headline and not the meat of the article. I've recently (past ~5 years) stopped viewing the world pessimistically. I don't believe it's because I'm blindly optimistic, but because I didn't have the perspective to understand our ancestor's problems and how good of a life…

There was a science experiment where they took pessimists and optimists and had them rate themselves from one to ten in terms of looks. Then they had another external group of people rate them based off of the same 1 to 10 scale to get an unbiased baseline. Turns out pessimists had a more accurate and realistic rating around how good they looked. While optimists had ratings that were wildly overblown. There are other…

> I wonder how this post will get voted? Down for being depressing and negative? Or up for being truthful?

Likely down for talking about votes.

And for assuming there is only one truth.

> We construct illusions to protect ourselves from fully experiencing the cruel reality of life.

Reality is cruel. Nature is cruel. Existence is cruel. And Humans have overcome a substantial amount of that cruelty and enjoy a quality of life our ancestors couldn't even dream of.

There are many other things to be optimistic about given where life on earth started and how it is going for humans. Our ancestors have come a long way in 4.5bn years, it would be special kind of blindness to write that progress off as a lie we tell ourselves to stay sane.

Re: Playing video games can help to reduce stress and anxiety, and improve mood

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Post by mrtweetyhack »

deebosong wrote: post #42
MrGilbert wrote: post #8

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Same goes for just hanging out with your friends in the evening without any sports, eh?

Just to take the comment seriously, when I kick it with buddies, I seem to be naturally attuned and attentive to my bodily needs way more than when I get sucked into a very addicting videogame, where after I finally snap out of the fugue state, a lot of my bodily needs are like, "WERE YOU NOT LISTENING TO US FOR THE PAST 2-3 HOURS OR SOMETHING?" It's legit made me try to find videogames that are not that addicting, b…

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Re: Playing video games can help to reduce stress and anxiety, and improve mood

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Post by HervalFreire »

r3trohack3r wrote: post #137
HervalFreire wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a science experiment where they took pessimists and optimists and had them rate themselves from one to ten in terms of looks. Then they had another external group of people rate them based off of the same 1 to 10 scale to get an unbiased baseline. Turns out pessimists had a more accurate and realistic rating around how good they looked. While optimists had ratings that were wildly overblown. There are other…

> I wonder how this post will get voted? Down for being depressing and negative? Or up for being truthful? Likely down for talking about votes. And for assuming there is only one truth. > We construct illusions to protect ourselves from fully experiencing the cruel reality of life. Reality is cruel. Nature is cruel. Existence is cruel. And Humans have overcome a substantial amount of that cruelty and enjoy a quality…

Who knows? You could be right and I could be the one that is totally blind.

I propose an experiment to find out just which one of us is actually more delusional. To start off, how would you rate yourself in terms of looks from 1 to 10?

Re: Playing video games can help to reduce stress and anxiety, and improve mood

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Post by Uupis »

411111111111111 wrote: post #57
r3trohack3r wrote: post #44

I thought this was going to be an article about optimism ("geeking out" as in getting excited about things). I acknowledge that I'm responding to the headline and not the meat of the article. I've recently (past ~5 years) stopped viewing the world pessimistically. I don't believe it's because I'm blindly optimistic, but because I didn't have the perspective to understand our ancestor's problems and how good of a life…

> Whenever I get a brief feeling of "this is bad," I remind myself that humans have conquered far worse than whatever "this" is and that we are likely to triumph over this thing too. I do something very similar, though slightly different. Whenever I notice something bad i rejoice that I've probably lived through the best times our western society likely ever have I at least experienced a reality which didn't have [th…

Oh, somehow this kinda clicks for me.

Thank you!

Reminds me of:

> I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.

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