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Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day... (infosec.pub)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by pastolia6@lemmy.ca to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way

Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today

And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Worrying too much about a problem just caused extreme anxiety and brain fog.

I beat the worst of my depression and anxiety by connecting this very idea to the realization that my brain would start writing stories to explain my feelings, and those stories didn't necessarily need to even make sense, but those repetitions were reinforcing a feeling, which reinforced the thoughts, which reinforced the feelings... etc, etc. It's called rumination and it's the enemy of life and happiness.

Learning to identify where my feelings start attacking my thoughts helped me beat rumination but that's only the first step.

So far, I can’t really even do that, I have a lot of disfunction to make up for, somehow. I tend to forget what I’m supposed to do for entire hours…

You're on the next step, which is healing and trying to find new meaning. It will get better, but keep pushing yourself to discomfort, to doing things you're not used to. Your brain is locked into "survival mode" and that means a lot of executive function is still in safe-mode, bare necessities for survival only. It makes it harder to experience joy or fulfillment from even the small things that people enjoy.

Some of my therapists have told me this heals and you will rebuild yourself. I can tell it is healing slowly, but it takes so much time. I wish I could tell you how long it takes. I'm still on that step.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago

It takes forever, as it is always an ongoing process that keeps healing. It will get better for us though.