The "HOW DO I DEAL WITH ANXIETY ABOUT CORONAVIRUS?" page is not bad.
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Replying to @reasonisfun @DavidDeutschOxf
Disagree: "It is normal to feel sad, stressed, confused, scared or angry during a crisis." is an error ridden, normative, presumptive, inductive statement. What's more, it appeases to these self-deprecating reactions to a problem situation that mandates rational thinking
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Replying to @thethinkersmith @reasonisfun
Good point. I missed that angle.
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Replying to @DavidDeutschOxf @thethinkersmith
1. It *is* normal. 2. This sentence is to help people acknowledge how they're feeling, instead of add pressure to put on a brave face and suppress it. 3. Those reactions aren't self-deprecating. That's like saying your emotions are wrong, instead of the ideas that cause them.
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Noah Drucker Retweeted Noah Drucker
This is also a valid point. Perhaps instead of saying "not normal" we can say "not required." The same point I wanted to make with
@webdevMasonhttps://twitter.com/DruckerPPS/status/1242483787017019394?s=19 …Noah Drucker added,
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Replying to @DruckerPPS @reasonisfun and
In my experience, people who try to either foment or suppress their own fear end up mostly failing *and* bringing worse outcomes upon themselves
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Replying to @webdevMason @reasonisfun and
Without a doubt. Hence the need for a healthy middle ground, which will always require the ability to exist within the dialectic tension of seeming opposites. A skill sorely lacking in the world.
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Replying to @DruckerPPS @reasonisfun and
I do think self-acceptance can go too far. Much of the time fear/anxiety is the "hey, this is a bad situation and you shouldn't stay in it" signal. A lot of the language of self-care is designed to maintain whatever is, and that's not generally ideal
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Replying to @webdevMason @DruckerPPS and
So if you force yourself to "sit with" a "flee this" signal, you're not actually accepting your feelings at all.
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Replying to @webdevMason @DruckerPPS and
'Sit with' should literally be interpreted as seated meditation in a safe place where life linked anxiety can be grounded out by cultivating friendliness towards it. Agree with you for when being in the world means getting to safety. Emotions protect us in many cases.
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It's not how people think of sitting with emotion but it's a better idea than the folk psychology concept.
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