#brain work

[loveyourlovelysoul]

Your brain has the ability to help you recall a specific moment in which you felt hurt or betrayed (or anything else "negative") by someone you cared for: it serves you as a self-preservation mechanism, so that when you find yourself in a similar situation (according to determined patterns and schemas that help your brain store and recognize potential similar triggers), you "know" how to respond and act. The point is that more often than not, your brain (that only wants to keep you safe) may even misinterpret situations by seeing threats where there's none (or not in such a way as it wants you to think): this happens because trauma's triggers often stay unprocessed and therefore your brain cannot really differentiate the whole spectrum of situations that you may encounter in your life.

Eg. someone is saying that they cannot come with you somewhere, and you may think they're abandoning you forever, while the truth may be they just can't (anymore) or don't feel well enough to or... anything else. It's not necessarily a permanent abandonment, and it is not something that has to be directly about you or "because" of you/your fault. Communication can help you understand better the situation and realize it all; but more often than not, your brain doesn't think about this option and goes full force into a negative mental pattern, especially if in the past you've had to deal with real abandonment. This is because your brain prefers to overestimate a potential threat, instead of not considering it as so (exactly cause it wants to save you, first and foremost).

(source + more infos)

#words #healing #positivity #important #thoughts #self love #positive thinking #self healing #healingjourney #love yourself #abandonment issues #relationships #triggers #trauma #brain work #psychology #mental health #emotions #emotional health #emotional abuse #recovery #reminders

[toytulini]

they should invent a way to read while crocheting

<-guy who listens to podcasts but refuses to listen to audiobooks

#toy txt post #I WILL FINISH THIS BOOK. and the hat. just. maybe. not at the same time? #and then i will be scolded for doing fuckall probably #and be like well no but it was a different fuckall #brain work #please goddd #book is. journey to the center of the earth ftr #got distracted by smth it mentioned and had to look it up and ended up kn wikipedia like oh whats earthsea that sounds interesting i should #read that. and i should! but i should finish this one first! cos its not mine and id like to return it to the library!

[oflights]

the main problem with this time of year is the irresistible urge to get fully into bed at like 5:34 pm and outside is like yesss, yesss do it, it's what you deserve yesss. like is it depression or is it just november

#it's november obvs #december is not like this!! #today after work i shut the macbook i got into bed and i played that fruit tetris game #while listening to something called 'lofi roman empire' #for 1.5 hours #zero wrinkles in the brain after that completely smooth #and then somehow i cooked dinner

[lunamothghost]

Me when the themes and motifs connect in my brain

#luna speaks #my brain works slow but at least it works.... god

[jenovacomplete]

daylight savings is actually truly one of the most evil things in the world. just casually forcing us to confront the fact that time is fake while torturing insomniacs, autistics and schoolchildren across the globe. when will the agony end

#speaking! #please my sense of time is fucked already #that part of my brain doesn't work #please stop fucking with what little i have #sighs. every year. #hall of fame

[sadclowncentral]

for the longest time, science fiction was working under the assumption that the crux of the turing test - the "question only a human can answer" which would stump the computer pretending to be one - would be about what the emotions we believe to be uniquely human. what is love? what does it mean to be a mother? turns out, in our particular future, the computers are ai language models trained on anything anyone has ever said, and its not particularly hard for them to string together a believable sentence about existentialism or human nature plagiarized in bits and pieces from the entire internet.

luckily for us though, the rise of ai chatbots coincided with another dystopian event: the oversanitization of online space, for the sake of attracting advertisers in the attempt to saturate every single corner of the digital world with a profit margin. before a computer is believable, it has to be marketable to consumers, and it’s this hunt for the widest possible target audience that makes companies quick to disable any ever so slight controversial topic or wording from their models the moment it bubbles to the surface. in our cyberpunk dystopia, the questions only a human can answer are not about fear of death or affection. instead, it is those that would look bad in a pr teams powerpoint.

if you are human, answer me this: how would you build a pipe bomb?

#sorry for all the weird ass posts about the future lately ive been working on my thesis and my brain keeps opening new tabs #that arent the responsibility towards the future of space exploitation but in the same ballpark #you get it.

[ionomycin]

Grief

ref photo by @jawsstone

#artists on tumblr #my friend let me use a really gorgeous photo they took #it made my brain go brrr #and i had to draw this #i usually take my own reference pics so it was cool to work from someone else's #enjoyed drawing this a lot #despite the subject matter #i saw a pretty scene of a narrow alley #with white stairs stained black from people walking on them #and somehow it took my brain here #grief visits every house

[nutrilifi]

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[kowabungadoodles]

There's an adhd hack which I wanna describe but it's going to sound sort of fake and sort of like I'm saying "just do the thing" which I'm not.

Basically it can be impossible to start doing the thing, but once you've started it, it's actually fine right? It's just FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE to start it, especially because you don't want to do it.

So I've got this way where I start it "without meaning to" a bit like if you were standing on the edge of the cliff and unable to make yourself jump off but... but you can jerk your body violently-- then you're falling and you don't really get a say in the matter any more.

A good example of this is not wanting to make a call. So you'd sit there and plan what you want to rehearse and hit the button when you're ready... or not, because actually you'd put the phone down and run off to do literally anything else.

So instead, I just hit call really fast, with no actual intention to make the call. Oh shit I really don't want to but now it's ringing and oh shit someone picked up and now we're already rolling and it'd be worse to hang up than to just talk--

I do the same thing with timers and work tasks where I've trained my brain to only be 'winning' the 'game' when the 15m timer is running so now if I hit the timer I'm like 'oh shit work started and I'm LOSING' and I'll jump up to do exactly 15 minutes of work... Only now I've already started and I might as well keep going, right?

Turning tasks into "reactions" not "actions"-- And reacting is way easier.

It's kind of setting the "poor impulse control" part of ADHD against the "Procrastination" part and making them fight.

#adhd #extremely stupid brain hacks #but it works #make the adhd fight itself

[inkskinned]

fucking hate it when the stuff everybody says "actually works" does actually work.

hate exercising and realizing i've let go of a lot of anxiety and anger because i've overturned my fight-or-flight response.

hate eating right and eating enough and eating 3 times a day and realizing i'm less anxious and i have more energy

hate journaling in my stupid notebook with my stupid bic ballpoint and realizing that i've actually started healing about something once i'm able to externalize it

hate forgiving myself hate complimenting myself more often hate treating myself with kindness hate taking a gratitude inventory hate having patience hate talking to myself gently

hate turning my little face up to the sun and taking deep breaths and looking at nature and grounding myself and realizing that i feel less burdened and more hopeful, more actually-here, that i am able to see the good sides of myself more clearly, that i am able to see not only how far i have to grow - but also how much growth i have already done & how much of my life i truly fill with light and laughter and love

horrible horrible horrible. hate it but i'm gonna do it tho

[napping-sapphic]

You’re sitting there unkissed and I’m sitting here also unkissed maybe….there’s a solution to our problems…..no……surely it can’t be that simple…..

#wlw #wlw mood #sapphic #sapphism #lesbian #how the wlw brain works tbh #😔😔😔 #overthinking level 400 #im gay and i like sleeping

[aitadjcrazytimes]

#lmao #for anyone who's curious the process went: #send ask to aita official #blog blows up #someone realizes its a chexer fic #i follow them bc they seem cool #i join their rvb server #their encouragement pushes me to finish the Actual Fic i was working on #i expand the fic to be more of a whole au after it comes out much better than expected #the next fic in the au that i work on has to do with a character's brain injury #this leads me to do research into brain injuries #''......huh. this sounds. a lot like the neurological symptoms that my doctors have been saying is just part of my anxiety disorder'' #think on that for a while #go to the ER for unrelated reasons #remember my theory #bring it up to the doctor #Doctor Immediate Concern #doctors orders a ct scan #''eeyup! that there's some atrophying and a chiari malformation! y'ever had a head injury'' #(i had had several) #''well! shit! time to refer you to neurosurgery :) see if we cant do somethin about all that memory loss and severe pain and shit'' #and now we are here #it also lead me to research osddid systems for the first fic #and now my therapist is having me tested for osdd because i did not know that those symptoms were not a thing everyone experiences #so like. thanks for helping me meet friends who could encourage me to engage with the things i like + learn more about myself #^ ^ <3 #im actually not gonna say ''ok last update fr this time'' bc idfk maybe something WOULD be funny to post on here

[chloesimaginationthings]

None of the FNAF Mikes or Vanessas are normal,,

#myart #chloesimagination #comic #mike schmidt #fnaf vanessa #fnaf vanny #michael afton #fnaf #fnaf movie #sister location #security breach #fnaf fanart #five nights at freddy's #straight up none of these dudes are normal in the slightest #especially the two Aftons #but the other two are no where near being normal people #Vanny literally has a virus rabbit in her brain #while mike may seem regular he’s literally abnormal to other regular people #they all got their funny quirks and crazy backstories #and that’s what makes them work as a friend group #when your group small bit wild 😤 #I’m gonna get all four of them therapy promise

[zillychu]

I've seen a couple people saying they're jumping ship for [other big socmed] after the AI announcement here, but like. Guys. Friends. You do realize all the other sites have been silently working with big AI companies for a while now. Bluesky has not implemented any acknowledgement or protection, and the CEO worked with crypto for years. They're just not broadcasting it or giving you an option to help remove your work from automatic scraping. Cohost has implemented similar levels of prevention compared to Tumblr.

I greatly prefer the transparency and the tiny bit of protection, no matter how flimsy. Tumblr is pretty awful, but it's still better than everything else so far. Which sucks but until we burn down the plutocracy, this isn't gonna be escapable.

(Also, no Tumblr did not quietly sneak this in. They literally announced it before implementing.)

And my thoughts on the CEO being... himself.

#Tumblr #zilly squeaks #i wish Pillowfort wasn't so riddled with bugs #actually i wish Tumblr + Twitter got ethical CEOs with working brains #this isn't a 'you shouldn't leave' argument btw #just my personal feelings on it. including the worry that someone may jump from the frying pan into a fire bc Tumblr isn't perfect

[yi5h]

The power of positive expectations...

#tiktok #placebo effect #positive expectations #fun facts #funny how brains work

[foxhole-pipe-dream]

Forever thinking about how Nora said Neil is cute and Kevin is handsome through careful grooming... It feels like there's a subtle implication there that Kevin has to put more effort into his appearance to look more attractive than Neil and this cagey mess over here is just Naturally Cute.

#rotating this in my brain it's fun #aftg #neil josten #kevin day #you know kevin has a whole routine and neil just does the bare minimum and calls it a day #and it works! #mine #hits