Been thinking about this post lately

@faltzuthewiz my bestie used to remind me, when things were bad, that you can cry AND do the dishes

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My daily struggle summarized in one post.

@faltzuthewiz ”what’s the worst thing that can happen?” WELLLLLL

@faltzuthewiz I have found that dealing with my psychotic symptoms has been most successful when I don't go straight to "my concerns are unwarranted". Even if your concerns are not founded on consensus reality, you should still take yourself seriously.

The approach of "I feel crap but watering the plants is important to me" is actually the basis of ACT therapy. A stands for Acceptance (NOT dismissing concerns), C for commitment (hey, I love my plants so I am going to water them even if they are spying on me), and T is just Therapy.

@faltzuthewiz If anything, I can share a picture of my dead plants. A pityful monument of my executive disfunction. I will throw them to compost one day, you don't need to remind me every half year.

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Totally. We always think that our mental health is an individual problem but it is far from being the case.

I think it is an indicator of how our society is doing. And right now... well...

@faltzuthewiz what about not just trying to cope, but trying to change things?

@globcoco @faltzuthewiz So true, especially in the US... but we others are getting there too. We need Rat Park.

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Rat park?

@faltzuthewiz real.

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https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/what-does-rat-park-teach-us-about-addiction

@faltzuthewiz If you have an anxiety disorder then you may be told to really consider what you are anxious about and why--examine the worst possible outcome and see if it's really that scary.

But it seems to me it always would have been really bad psychology to suggest to someone anxious about their recent diagnosis with a terminal illness that there's nothing to be anxious about.

It's also probably a really sad thing to have to tell someone with an anxiety disorder that they're about to die.

@faltzuthewiz That gets me thinking about this scene from an old WW2 movie about a bomber crew. They fly into enemy territory with like 3/4 of them being new recruits and of course one screws up and sends an enemy plane into one of the friendlies and cuts it in half. As it falls down to the ground you can hear one of the young recruits in it, "But I don't WANT to die!!!"

((shudder))

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"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -- J. Krishnamurti

@faltzuthewiz It's an adjustment. waking up with fascism so close. with ecozide happening... it ripples through the whole of me, bringing up some primal fear. I have very calm and clear moments, when i can see, how it has always been there, underneath, or where I wasn't looking. I accept the logic of it coming out and being in every bodies face. I shed naivety. I have to let go of blurry dreams I may have had when I was younger. But then I accept it. It's where we are.I find new ground under me.Where ever we will go, it starts here.

@tina @faltzuthewiz I had one therapist that tried to take on concerns with rationalism "but is that actually a likely result?"

It didn't work with "I can't remember my last successful project" and it REALLY doesn't work with fascism.

@faltzuthewiz A lot of my therapy session today was about this very thing.