Mi'sen

For the sake of viewpoint diversity / productively critical clash of ideas: The #SobSquad movement falls into "most disagree + I don't yet have an argument which stands up to their criticism + maybe they know something important".https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1204669821859713024 …

Looks like Lulie has already seen this thread but it seems worth linking as it's definitely relevant to this idea-clash. Basically @QiaochuYuan & I think ~"crying is bad" is actually a keystone meme holding the coercive/static society memeplex in place:https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1187240332510908416 …

yes. i can't tell you - i mean i literally cannot tell you b/c confidentiality - how many sessions i've facilitated that involved crying from the effects of abuse (including for myself), which in the process allowed people to acknowledge and confront the abuse

Relaad: my cute but wrong theory is that the surge in reported psych rates meme (ie: I haven’t checked if there actually was an increase) all started from the gay rights movement (maybe earlier) which was a seismic shift towards a culture which allows for openness of expression

(*related) This is like improving information efficiency in the system, which changes the folk perception of the costs of social norms and so on. I’ve seen a similar thing re: abuse where the sudden pop of the bubble - people expressing hurt openly - shifts the equilibrium.

Question for cry-guys/bio-emotive practioners: when you’re sat doing your trauma processing stuff and you get to the point where you’re streaming tears or whatever, what’s your next step? Like do you just stay on that texture of feeling, letting it unfold, or what? I’m curious

if i hit sobbing then often more emotional content comes up and i try naming that stuff, sort of surfing the waves of what's arising, which often leads to more sobbing. sometimes i end up feeling very good and then name the new pleasant content