#Cognitive Behaviourism

[userarmand]

Brie Larson & Andrew Scott l Actors on Actors

Andrew: I was reading that you were shy as a kid. Brie: Yeah. Not anymore. I’m totally fine now. I’m totally confident and cool. Andrew: That's—I really related to you when I was reading that, because that’s kind of why I started [acting] as a kid.

[disabilities-disabilities]

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[robotclownindulgence]

There's a therapist playing through the entirety of disco elysium on youtube right now and he's trying to comment on the protagonist and other character's mental states and like putting his own spin on it which is super funny because of disco protags *everything* but because the language of psychology is a gift that keeps on giving you also end up with video titles like this

[sirserpentine]

[for the voice in Pentious's head...]

You're a sexy beautiful snake, don't you let anyone tell you otherwise. You're a brilliant inventor, fuck yeah, sssslither on!

Send my muse anonymous voices!

Somewhere within his affirmations, new, amusing sort of thoughts enter Pentious' mind. Outrageous as they are, he feels they are still more rooted to reality than those generous judgements of his character.

He keeps chanting, chuckling a tad, claws no longer pressing into his scaled skin but gently resting over his arms.

"I am beautiful... I am a brilliant inventor.... Um... Fuck yesss."

He tries to repackage the thoughts, so it matches his lessons.

"I can... be helpful. I can be kind. I can be selflessss..."

[lemememeringue]

therapist agreed that the shadow demons are probably stress related since my stress levels have gone up exponentially ever since the wasp

[fatal-blow]

trying to read an article linking cognition and bigotry and they haven't even defined cognition

[spoczkotszcz]

Writing resource - how I envision different emotional states

Cognitive processes are often regarded as separate from emotional processes, marking a sharp distinction between "thinking" and "feeling". Do keep in mind that not all theories of emotion regard this separation as valid. In effect a lack or dampening of a physiological response to a stimulus does not mean the person in question is incapable of understanding what the response should be in cognitive or even creative aesthetic terms, begging the question of whether this distinction is a fair or useful one to make.

Shame - Dripping. Viscous. Downward movements. Suffocating. Overwhelming. Paralysing thought and action like heavy mud.

Anger- a fiery storm of electrical impulses. As fire does, it requires fuel to propagate. It can be immediate and violent, or slow and building.

Envy- an emptiness. A lack of something the self has, the individuals ego stretching out as if to pluck that very thing out of the world. Has a tendency to be social focused. A wall of mirrors reflecting the self as others. The self expressing anger at these mirrors.

Glee- electrifying pleasure. It energises from within with an optimistic lens colouring the persons subsequent thoughts. Childlike whimsy as the person relaxes and loses inhibition

Confusion- electrical impulses misfiring as the mind searches for answers to external stimuli it cannot find. Lost in a deep forest, where every tree and thought looks the same.

Curiosity - a hunger of the mind. Sensory organs seeking out input so as to satisfy an ache deep inside. Eyes roaming, nostrils twitching, hands searching for touch.

Shock- similar to confusion, but more immediate. A paralysing instinctive reaction with an undercurrent of fear.

Fear- a cold dread, the swift acceleration of breathing, heart rate and muscle contractions. The body readying itself to confront a threat.

Anxiety- similar to fear in terms of physiological response, but more forward thinking and longer lasting. Less acute than fear, but causes more inner turmoil and mental anguish as the effects of diluted fear permeating the mind over long periods of time take their toll.

Worry- repeated rumination on a problem stemming from irrational inner turmoil, such as due to fear or envy. It is anxiety's more practical cousin, effectively. A ruminating feeling, pulling the mind inwards onto itself.

[hussyknee]

Somehow always manage to forget how painful a flare is until one hits. And then it's like. yeah. An inflamed and swollen large bowel with ruptured ulcers is agonizing.

[itsalmostavengers]

No just kidding I can dig myself out of any hole I can achieve greatness I can do good things I will be okay I will be fine I will come out of this stronger I will love and be loved and everything will be fine I just need to ride out the storm it will be fine. It will be fine!!!!! It will be fine because there is no other choice. Okay cool.

[happyk44]

It's kinda funny because w/ my Zeus kid OC (who I've been thinking about renaming as Araceli, 'cause it means altar of the sky, apparently, which I like 'cause sky-themed-ish but also like. A little bit I wanted something that meant cloud the way Coral's name means... Coral) the implication is that she takes after her father to an almost mirroring degree because I developed her and my other PJO OCs (who also all got retconned into an OG work) at the same time I was playing around with my ideas on the Big Six, and the gist at the time was supposed to show how the Big Six could've turned out if they weren't so weird.

So the dynamics of the friendship was supposed to be very similar to the dynamics of Big Six's relationship to each other (e.g. Mary having a major crush on Hera's "representative" but also being attracted to literally every other person that walked by, Nico being the soberminded big brother figure, etc). It's also one of the reasons Mary would get angry whenever someone would compare to her dad, because similarly I think Zeus would get angry if someone compared him to his dad.

And then eventually as I got older and the daydream moved around with whatever obsession I had at the time, the characters and general storyline began to change away from that in some ways but core features sort of stayed and so I ended up with a version of Zeus that ignores his daughter's pleas for help because he loves her but her pain hurts him because he can't do anything about it and it's his fault she's suffering.

She got this intensity from him, it's ingrained into the way it's ingrained in him. But he was able to rebuild the world according to his own needs and wants and beliefs. And she can't really do that. So he doesn't have any advice he can give her when she's on her knees begging for help with all the noise and pain in her head. He doesn't know what to do! It's like he can just go and rip it out of her.

But she's suffering because she's different and she's weird and she knows it and she knows it's his fault which is why she's asking but he just doesn't know and he can't handle watching her suffering and listening to her cry when there is no helpful answer to give her because "I don't know" isn't going to fix it.

He's supposed to fix things, he's supposed to have the answers. He's king of the world, by damn! He's a problem solver. He supposed to have a solution, and a million backup solutions. But he doesn't! There's nothing he can do to make the noise stop because truth be told, the noise never really stopped for him! It just got easier and quieter. So he turns away from her because he loves her and he's failing her and he can't handle that.

But also in the same breath, I think he recognizes similar aspects of himself in Jason, who isn't even asking for help, and fucking despises him for it, lol.

✨ Girl Dad ✨

[burstfoot]

MAYER DELETE THAT PHOTO RIGHT NOW

Inktober Day 28! Yeah, I know I just posted like 12 drawings... I didn't do todays yet... The rule for this one was "go to the Hot Topic website main page and pick the most embarrassing outfit you can find". I like to think Amiya tells Ifrit where to shop.

[agroupofcrows]

i don’t understand why cloud ff7 isn’t the number one meow meow on this website. like statistically he should be more significant

[limetameta]

I miss ending things on cliffhangers. I miss 2012 when I'd write 2k updates about an oc navigating creepypasta characters and have Catholic guilt about wanting to fuck slenderman. I miss it man. (The funniest thing is I'm not even Catholic I just saw online thats the religion most people write about and was like OK sick. 2012 limeta was rly out there already banking on the inherent repression of catholicism while being like i dont know why but i guess catholics are also horny)

[lemememeringue]

my therapist thinks I'm funny. I have never told this man a joke.

[feline-evil]

It wasn't funny at the time but looking back on it man it is genuinely hilarious how my first attempt at getting diagnosed and getting help with my mental illnessess went.

So imagine if you will the skinniest, most unwell, sleepless looking 18 year old, just real Victorian orphan vibes with permanent shakes and a penchant for passing out in fear if he so much as thinks of leaving the house. I need you to know that's the kind of state i was in when i walked into a doctors office to see one of the oldest men i've ever seen in an employed field. He sits me down and asks me what's wrong, he's the GP at my local doctors; that's a general practitioner, if you're outside of the UK maybe that's not a familiar term. Anyway he's not a psychologist, you don't get to see a psychologist unless your GP refers you! Anyway he asks me whats wrong and i explain to him my long list of debilitating anxiety symptoms, i tell him about not being able to eat or sleep or leave the house; i'm in a bad way at this point in my life, it's not a good time for young jay! Lad doesn't even know he's a man yet! Pretty bad time all round!

And so after i explain to him the situation we get our first of the many funny 'i'm not sure this man is qualified to have this conversation' red flags.

"Do you have a boyfriend?"

Uh oh.

Well no, sir, on account of the not leaving the house socialisation has been tricky, see?

"Oh you need a boyfriend and some friends, that'll help love :)"

Uh oh.

It is at this point in the appointment we are winding down towards the end of my time here at the doctors, and our next big ol' waving red flag hits like a jet liner. And this ones the big one, the one that gives me reason to tell this story and watch people look a mite aghast.

The GP laughs, claps a hand on my shoulder and says "well don't you worry, we won't be locking you up for this one!"

I freeze in shock.

What did this man just say.

Now, i don't wish to imply that this wouldn't be a horrifying thing to say to a different teen riddled with severe mental illness who didn't have a family history of relatives being admitted to psychiatric institutes, but i am suggesting that MAYHAPS. JUST POTENTIALLY. That was a slightly more horrifying sentence to come out of a medical professionals mouth to someone who has that as a family history in his own living memory! So i lock up in horror, alarms blaring in my mind, wondering how the fuck i'm going to politely and finitely end this conversation and meeting and leave vowing never to cross this mans path again in my life; but i don't get much time to ponder what to do, because here comes the final red flag, that second jet liner crashing right in, the final can of petrol being poured on the burning wreck that is the first appointment i have ever made to talk about my mental health.

This man, a complete stranger, i had never met this GP before in my life, hugs me. It is so uncomfortable, i would not say i am the most comfortable with physical contact from strangers even now nearly ten years later, but then? At age eighteen? This is just about the worst thing that could've happened in my eyes! I do not come from a family that hugs, i didn't not know how to hug back then, in that moment it's awkward and weird and i just freeze and wait for it to end, and then i leave the room with the GP beaming and waving after me like he's just performed a miracle and i'll forever be cured from this point on.

I walk to my mom waiting for me in the waiting room, she smiles and gives me a thumbs up.

GENUINELY it couldn't have gone worse, objectively the funniest awful situation i have ever been in.

[blueboyluca]

I really enjoyed this podcast episode with Dr Clive Wynne. I’ve said before that I find him very compelling to listen to. I loved the way he distinguished between unproblematic and problematic anthropomorphism and for him it’s between emotions and cognition. I also really liked their discussion about dog training and how in the absence of good scientific research on training methods, the right thing is to be observant of our animals’ behaviour and be kind in our training. I would have liked them to discuss ideas like those put forward in Dr Friedman’s paper ‘What’s Wrong With This Picture? Effectiveness is Not Enough’ but I know that’s an essay not a research paper.