It's called negativity bias. It's an evolved trait passed down from our ancestors. Only the people with anxiety who devoted a lot of conscious thought to unpleasant possibilities lived long enough to reproduce, passing on those tendencies.

I'm not sure if ADHD has anything to do with it, but it's possible that there's even more focus on negativity as a result.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We aren't made for this world. It's too easy to survive for us. We're bored. It makes sense now.

[–] match@pawb.social 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

we need more large carnivorous land mammals for balance

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

We killed all of them except wolves and some bears.

[–] Szyler@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Adhd kids gets more negative feedback on average, so just more of the negative stuff worsening this negative bias

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now, if I can just figure out who to blame that's not me!

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

you can easily point your fingers at how evolution wired our brains in general. Unfortunately for us, civilisation apes who don't get brain updates when things are going alrighs, it makes sense:

which is more important to remember?

a place where there are really pretty flowers :)
a place where the bears live

negative memories have more real estate in our brains because they could come in handy for survival later, evolution doesn't care for your happiness, just survival. You could be the most miserable git out there but as long as you successfully fucked an opposite gential haver once then that's all that matters. And if your misery somehow contributed to you having fucked a lot? oh boy are those genes getting passed on

[–] TehBamski@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I read this very much like it was a comment on !outside@lemmyworld.com, and it added to the overall read.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

A recent study found that cat brains do the opposite, imprinting good experiences much more strongly than bad ones.

[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

So learning has to be cringe

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is there a watermark on the hand in the top panel, or did ai make a hand out of Jigsaw's face...?

[–] Amanduh@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Watermark methinks but I enjoyed the visual

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Glad i could share! Also, that's the first 'methinks' that i didn't personally type out that I've seen in quite a while.

[–] Amanduh@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I hope it was everything you dreamed it would be.