Nobody likes a stress head! Classic. Except now we're all stress heads! It's fine.
I had a moment a few years ago a bit like your story about not being able to find de-overwhelm through the phone, even with friends. Someone was having a problem, and I had become so used to 'sitting with it' with people that I forgot that people sometimes just want to feel some relief. Maybe we're all doing *too much* therapy?
Haha, I actually stopped therapy a year ago partly because I had got to a point where I felt like I was spending too much time "dwelling" on things when I could be... doing stuff that made me feel better! Maybe one for a future newsletter. But I think going to one's phone for stress relief is just adding *more* stimuli to an already overstimulated nervous system and on a really basic physiological level it doesn't make any sense. I just got to the point where I was like "wtf am I doing? this is so dumb"
Nobody likes a stress head! Classic. Except now we're all stress heads! It's fine.
I had a moment a few years ago a bit like your story about not being able to find de-overwhelm through the phone, even with friends. Someone was having a problem, and I had become so used to 'sitting with it' with people that I forgot that people sometimes just want to feel some relief. Maybe we're all doing *too much* therapy?
Haha, I actually stopped therapy a year ago partly because I had got to a point where I felt like I was spending too much time "dwelling" on things when I could be... doing stuff that made me feel better! Maybe one for a future newsletter. But I think going to one's phone for stress relief is just adding *more* stimuli to an already overstimulated nervous system and on a really basic physiological level it doesn't make any sense. I just got to the point where I was like "wtf am I doing? this is so dumb"
It's defs newsletter territory.
Honestly if the 2020s had a motto, it would be 'wtf am I doing? this is so dumb'