I did in fact have a recent experience where I was going "I seem to be very afraid in this situation and I'm not sure what to do about this" and a little shoulder @m_ashcroft appeared and asked me what would happen if I just stopped being afraid.
Very annoying that it worked.https://twitter.com/GeniesLoki/status/1311960595403616258 …
This may be something where we're differing then, because "feel the fear and do it anyway" is closer to my normal approach. Here there does feel like something inhibition like where the fear is a bit of a feedback loop and what I was inhibiting was part of the loop?
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If the loop is: 1) Fear around a thing 2) Force the thing (do it anyway) Then consider that there might be another way to approach the thing that is being blocked by the forcing of 'doing it anyway'. Inhibition would be applied to 'the way you would do it anyway'.
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Not suggesting that you shouldn't do anything. Inhibition is a recognition that you respond habitually to a stimulus like fear, not doing that, allowing for other options and allowing one of them to happen instead*. * where you may still end up doing the original thing anyway.
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