Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

The "HOW DO I DEAL WITH ANXIETY ABOUT CORONAVIRUS?" page is not bad.

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

Good point. I missed that angle.

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.

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 …

In my experience, people who try to either foment or suppress their own fear end up mostly failing *and* bringing worse outcomes upon themselves

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.

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