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

Mason, as I stated to Lulie, suppression only applies to an interpretation that results in a reaction that causes a conflict in ideas. What I teach others is a form of reinterpretation such that what is interpreted does not result in a fear/stress/anxiety... reaction

If people want to do that sort of thing, they're welcome to, but it's precisely how cults work. All those signals most be softened so that attention isn't drawn to axioms that don't make sense and would otherwise raise alarms. Not worth it, IMO