12 point mental health check:
1. look in the mirror. do you respect that person?
2. mind depends on functional meatbag. is meatbag status acceptable?
3. do you like the people you're hanging out with most?
4. do you have something in life to look forward to?
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5. where/how do you live? do your environment(s) represent you acceptably?
6. look at your correspondence – last 100 messages, tweets, statuses, etc. what picture do they paint of you?
7. Consider the last 10 years of your life. Is there a pattern to be observed? What is it?
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8. Bug-catching. Look back at the painful, bad experiences of your life. What was your involvement in them? Are there discernably suboptimal patterns of thought, beliefs that need debugging?
9. Regret minimization. What have you regretted already? How minimize what's left?
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10. Social obligations. Can you make amends with the people you have hurt, disappointed, upset? Can you contribute to your community?
11. Humor – have you laughed lately?
12. Re-review all of the above, articulate whatever you think needs doing, then go do that
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this is very good but I would frame it as life health rather than mind health
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the open secret is that it's basically the same thing
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Not necessarily. Money is the reason the things are coupled. If you are rich enough you can separate the coupled parts.
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wait... if you are rich, you could have a healthy life with an unhealthy mind, or an unhealthy life with a healthy mind...? I feel like that's a contradiction in terms, but maybe I'm framing my terms differently...?
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Compartmentalize. It's possible to have a financially healthy life without a healthy mental life. It is possible to be physically healthy through money (just pay for the best doctors, trainers...). Any aspect of health you can outsource you can make healthy in an isolated way.
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oh yeah that's obviously true
hm, I wonder what my confusion was
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In Singapore, clearly you can't decouple anything from anything. It's all one big integrated Borg thing. You're a Singapore Borg drone. Six of Four.
I'm pulling his leg... I don't actually know if that's true. Just feels like very much of a package-deal of a life in Singapore from what I've seen/heard.
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lol there *are* lots of rich/successful people who are stupid or have all sorts of other personal issues here too


