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Cake day: 2023年10月3日

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  • interestingly, i don’t have a conscious fear of needles but whatever self preservation mechanisms run in my brain go completely ape shit if i do a self injection.

    it used to take me up to 2h to do my own T shots, and sometimes those instincts would present so intensely i was inches away from passing out (tunnel vision, ringing in my ears). i don’t fear needles, i don’t fear the pain, there barely is any to begin with, but my brain is hell-bent on not getting stabbed by my own hand. piercing the skin isn’t hard, but it sometimes took me 10min of trying to make my hand move and it just would not. i had to disassociate myself with loud music or youtube videos just so i could do it, and after i finally succeeded, i was often drenched in sweat and needed chocolate to stop feeling light headed

    after 4 years of that with no improvement, i decided to just go to a local clinic and have a nurse help me, and now my T shots take a whole maybe 15min at most (other people >:|). i have no idea why that ridiculous gelatine of the head panics so violently it tries to turn off conciousness if i try to stab myself with a needle on my own, but if someone else does it’s like “huh, ok”

    just why










  • hmm, i do wonder which causes which. Depression makes you prone to addictions as you seek anything to give you the happy chemicals. But constant social media exposure is rather harmful when you just take it all in, and that can cause depression Especially if you don’t block keywords for war coverages and politics.

    i stand firm in my opinion that human brains are straight up not designed to take in a constant stream of bad news from around the world, which sucks because we are designed to focus on negatives for our survival. Memories of accidents and deaths take priority over nice memories so that we can avoid dangers better. from evolution’s point of view you being happy is an afterthought, you just need to live long enough to fuck. and across history it worked! we never had to distinguish between dangers nearby and dangers so far away it literally does not matter for you, as all news were brought by foot or with an otherwise huge time delay - they were either nearby or already history, and only one or two at a time. well, never… until today, and our neuroplasticity doesn’t seem to be enough to counter this, and evolution doesn’t work fast enough to fix this

    Could also be a vicious cycle where if you trip and fall once both will create a negative synergy where you try to drown your sorrows in addictive doomscrolling, which only makes you worse


  • is it a fun fact that impacts nothing? i’ll accept it as fact immediately and without question

    is it a fact that has some weight to it? i’ll probably double check and if i find a reliable source that also claims it to be fact i’ll accept it (if i’m reading about it from a reliable source i will accept it immediately)

    is it a fact that contradicts my current beliefs/understanding of the world? i’ll do some research on it, check if there’s any recent articles like “that thing you thought was right? is not!”, and depending on the nature of the fact think about why it’s been debunked and how that changed my perception on the world





  • if they can’t do it on their own, and also assuming their aversion to introspection extends to psychologists too… well, if they ever express a desire to try psychadelics do encourage them. if there’s one thing that can force you to look in, it’s that. but let me reiterate - encourage them if they independently come up with the idea, don’t drug them (obviously), don’t push them towards it, make sure they are able to give informed consent to trying