GaMEChld

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[–] GaMEChld 3 points 1 month ago (6 children)

It's not that your thoughts aren't valid. Let's look at it differently. You are aware of muscle memory right? The idea you can train your body enough that an action can become easily repeatable.

Your mind is similar, it has a mental muscle memory. If your mind is filled with a reservoir of negative emotions about a particular thought, when your mind reaches for an emotion to react with, there's a high chance you're going to pull a negative emotion out of your emotional tool belt.

CBT is about manually forcing yourself to recognize and reframe those negative thoughts so that you slowly build up that positive reservoir of emotions.

You want the odds you're going to pull a positive emotion out of that tool belt to be more 50-50. It's not about eliminating negative thought or emotion entirely, but rather just giving yourself an even chance at reacting positively. Leveling the odds.

Negative emotion is just as valid as positive emotion and vice versa. And negative emotion isn't inherently negative. It's what you do with the emotions that truly makes them good or bad for us. Rage could inspire someone to murder but it could also inspire someone to act against injustice.

Conversely, there's nothing wrong with recognizing that an overly negative mindset is just bringing unhappiness and forcing yourself to slowly recalibrate that negative baseline.

[–] GaMEChld 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I concur. I got downvoted just for pointing out the left has an issue courting young male voters. I'm so sick of my own party.

[–] GaMEChld 1 points 1 month ago

Haven't played through Steins;Gate but that didn't stop it from being one of my favorite series!

[–] GaMEChld 47 points 1 month ago (10 children)

What's that from? What's the joke?

[–] GaMEChld 1 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Plex server is running on my old Threadripper 1950X. Thing has been a champ. Due to rebuild it since I've got newer hardware to cycle into it but been dragging my heels on it. Not looking forward to it.

[–] GaMEChld 2 points 1 month ago

My gaming PC uses an LG C2 OLED. 120Hz, 4K, HDR, FreeSync. At the time, gaming monitors with competitive specs were all sold out anyway or way more money.

That said, I don't connect any TV to Wi-Fi directly, hate all that "smart" crap. The smart TV apps usually all suck compared to just casting from other devices to a compatible cast device. For example I just cast from my phone to Chromecast as my primary method of controlling my TV and consuming media on it.

[–] GaMEChld 8 points 1 month ago

John Carter was great. Zero dollars spent on marketing. They thought it was a household name or something because it was a book.

[–] GaMEChld 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Pressure wash a few neighborhood walkways or houses, use income to buy drums.

[–] GaMEChld 2 points 1 month ago

No public option for healthcare, obstructed supreme Court appointment, yep totally behind him 100%.

[–] GaMEChld 0 points 1 month ago

I don't know what you're babbling about. What autism has to do with it is his public admission of Asperger's. You thinking autism is a slur sounds like your issue, not mine.

[–] GaMEChld 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trump is a symptom, not a cause. This disease runs deep.

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