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 stuck with me that as a Big 5 personality trait, neuroticism is the only one of the traits that correlates with life expectancy (-)
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You might also be interested in something found, the predictive processing model of neurosis (if what it says is true then with you doing this meditation and therapy and self-awareness stuff you can’t be on the wrong path):
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Have you seen this paper pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33006909/&ved=
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This was also to distinguish it from psychotic. People who felt like they fit neither but were somewhere in between got described as “borderline”. This is where the name for BPD comes from.
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oh snap, psychology lore, nice