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    1. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 17 Mar 2020

      Me? I learned to deny, to lie about what I was feeling, to make others feel better first, to create a braver person outside myself. Essentially, I learned to put on a face that didn’t show anything was wrong. Cause I didn’t want to be vulnerable like the kid-version of me.

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    2. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 17 Mar 2020

      The reason we embrace these adaptations long-term? Cause they work in the short term! You get positive feedback and so you get better at all these quick fixes and forms of avoidance. But you never learn to REALLY deal with the problem going on deep down. So you just keep running

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    3. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 17 Mar 2020

      But eventually comes a moment where you to face IT. When you can’t run from your fears, where you can’t pretend anymore, or bat it all away. You have to look grapple and accept the emotions head on. And face the negative impacts of all that really, truly makes you uncomfortable.

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    4. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 17 Mar 2020

      The negative impact of my lifetime of running was immense life; a culling, really. But going through therapy, I learned to connect to my emotions, to accept my fears, to emote and feel desperation, and ultimately, learned to join them with the healthy skills I had learned before

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    5. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 17 Mar 2020

      Cause all those flawed mechanisms still have great kinds of usefulness- they just need to be part of a range of skills, not singular. And my particular way of dealing with fear gave me a great sense of awareness (because I grew up in a situation where danger was very, very real)

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    6. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 17 Mar 2020

      In turn, every time I was told “this is scary” or “this is dangerous,” I took those words seriously. I learned how to engage those scary things calmly and with forethought, I learned to build practical solutions. I learned to try to talk about them and make them more “normal.”

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    7. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 17 Mar 2020

      And that’s the whole thing. There’s good and bad (read: healthy and toxic) aspects to every kind of fear-based reaction. To wit...

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    8. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 17 Mar 2020

      Re: Humor - A well-timed joke can cut the tension of a horrible situation and make people feel humanity and kinship in the struggle. But joking can also be a path of constant avoidance and prevent conflict from being dealt with healthily.

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    9. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 17 Mar 2020

      Re: Avoidance - Sometimes “not being able to deal with the thought of X” is totally a healthy way of prioritizing and focusing on concerns more important to you at the moment. Other times it’s a way to completely ostrich yourself to real danger.

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    10. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 17 Mar 2020

      Re: Engaging Fear Logically - Sometimes it can be a really healthy way of finding pragmatic solutions, but sometimes it can put bad faith in erroneous information, and you don’t realize you’re looking for the “rational” way to be in denial and avoid your emotions.

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      Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 17 Mar 2020

      Re: Disbelief - Sure, there’s healthy forms of skepticism, but the kind of disbelief we’re seeing right now from people still packing social spaces is the kind of willful ignorance that makes for grand tragedy.

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        2. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 17 Mar 2020

          And re: Acceptance - When the corona virus threat started looming a few weeks ago, my hyper serious brain when into gear and begins figuring out what the obstacles and dangers will be, articulating “why this is the exact reason it will be a problem when it comes here.”

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        3. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 17 Mar 2020

          But I acknowledge there are also the toxic forms of acceptance, like ASAP going to unbridled panic (note: obviously not talking about people with anxiety disorders, etc), and I admit a lot of times i’m making plans for problems that will never come up.

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        4. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 17 Mar 2020

          There’s no right “kind” of response, at different times we need all five. But within them, we need the healthy versions. And in the last week of corona, I wish I was seeing those healthy reactions, instead we’re seeing so many toxic reactions in the time we need each other most.

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        5. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 17 Mar 2020

          We’ve seen the worst of people in the way they raid grocery stores, stock up and try to sell necessary goods at high cost, or showcase jaw-dropping myopia in just how much they don’t care if they get a cold and others die. It’s sickening, honestly.

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        6. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 17 Mar 2020

          Weirdly twitter seems to be the most plugged into the realities of danger (or maybe that’s not weird at all). Meanwhile all my conversations with family have been GAHHH. So many people are brushing it off with “oh, it will be fine” - “we’re not like Italy” - "not here!" etc.

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        7. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 17 Mar 2020

          One relative, knowing I was self-quarantining literally suggesting I leave the house and interact with people to get some good food. But the time I convinced people that “I need you to take x seriously,” it immediately shifted to become, “okay, now I need you not to panic.”

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        8. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 17 Mar 2020

          As a society, we’re so bad at fear in particular. And adults are the WORST at it. We deny it, then we jump to panic or irrational anger, or find all these ways to try and hold onto something that makes sense, as the danger keeps sliding closer and closer.

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        9. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 17 Mar 2020

          These last few weeks even gave me a gnarly flashback to 2015. Because when Trump announced he was running, I was petrified from second one. I knew he could win. And yet it was the same jokes and disbelief, and I watched it all unfold with this pit in my stomach.

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        10. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 17 Mar 2020

          He was elected because so many forgot (or never knew) the old adage about how a politician stokes the fires of fascism, for “ it does not take cunning, nor great communication, nor guile, nor insight, nor brilliant strategy… all it takes is no character.”

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        11. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 17 Mar 2020

          History provides the answer to how this keeps happening. I saw a similar sense of surprise on twitter with people asking, “how did CONTAGION predict all this?” The answer is Scott Burns did very basic research and the CDC said “it will happen like this.” and then he wrote it.

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        12. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 17 Mar 2020

          When we’re aware and accept the realities of what can happen and why, there aren’t surprises... There is just openly facing that which we must face.

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        13. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 17 Mar 2020

          Stuff like this can happen so easily, all the time, everywhere. Our economies are made of paper. Most Americans a rent check away from despair. And as much as people don’t like it, we all constantly depend on one another to hold up the social contract.

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        14. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 17 Mar 2020

          Which is why I struggle when people don’t take these threats as seriously as they should. When you’re hyper attune to danger, these situations feel like you are always watching a car crash happen in slow motion. It makes you feel helpless and scared, for we should KNOW BETTER.

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        15. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 17 Mar 2020

          And it’s just then I have remind myself of everything I’ve learned, that the path forward is the same route of acceptance. That we are scared. That it’s okay to be scared. That’s it’s good for me to talk and get this off my chest. And know we have to keep doing what we can do.

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        16. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 17 Mar 2020

          Because in the end, the emotion has a true, healthy, incredible purpose. Fear is what keeps us alive. <3

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