me and a lot of people i know sure do love ruining our own lives by making up rules about what we aren't allowed to do and then following them straight into a ditch
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i say this with all the love i can muster 😅 and of course many of the rules were imposed on us by others 😔
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told me recently that the proper term for this is "neurotic" which really makes a lot of sense and i gotta wonder why we mostly stopped using such a useful word
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wow have i been basically a freudian this whole time 🤔
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should i start collecting these or would that be rude
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I talk a good game but the everyday reality of my life is almost entirely constrained by an arbitrary network of neuroses & anxieties & self imposed rules & stories of imaginary monsters that rope down almost all choices leaving just enough freedom to wiggle my little finger
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"some things I want to do but consider somehow illegal"
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some things I want to do but consider somehow illegal
• buy an electric guitar
• write a book
• go on a solo vacation
• make a profitable business
• throw stuff in the garbage
• join the Anglican church
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rules about being a girl / woman
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1. being a girl means doing boring things/being excluded from fun things
2. the different things boys and girls can/must do are Extremely Important to people even when they make no sense
3. being female is like being the wrong kind of person
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just never think about sex 5head
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at some point when i was an impressionable young lad i heard some shit like “men think about sex every 7 seconds” and whether this was intended or not i was left with the impression that this was bad, so i decided to never think about sex
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it's time to break out this gem
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If you have a habit of being hard on yourself or are chronically unhappy, it's good to regularly strive to cultivate self-compassion, gratitude, and mindfulness. If you've tried to cultivate these things and you still feel bad, it's because you're a failure and piece of shit
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i can gauge my mood pretty accurately based on exactly how funny i find this tweet 😅
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OK but can I get helpful examples of this?? bc I have a feeling I do that but I'm not sure how to figure out what exactly those "rules" are for me
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you can generate examples by explaining your problems to a normal person and then when they say "well can't you just do X" your gut reaction is "i definitely cannot do that"
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