#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.

[soft-puppy-boyfriend]

Just got off the phone with the new psych I'm going to be seeing and literally the ONLY thing stopping me from booking an appointment for tomorrw is money, so I'm about to sit down to my budget and see if Im able to scrape together $350 for the initial appointment this fortnight. If not, it's gonna be next fortnight before I can have my first session but wahoo!!! :D

[lemememeringue]

talked abt my gender. didn't mean to but that's how the conversation went.

[disabilities-disabilities]

Disabilities refer to impairments that may limit a person's physical, cognitive, sensory, or mental abilities to perform tasks or participate fully in everyday life. Disabilities can vary widely in nature and severity, and they can be temporary or permanent. Here are some common types of disabilities:

Physical disabilities: These involve impairments that affect mobility or physical functioning, such as paralysis, limb loss, or muscular dystrophy.

Sensory disabilities: These include impairments related to sight, hearing, or both. Blindness, low vision, deafness, and hearing loss fall into this category.

Cognitive disabilities: These affect cognitive functions, such as learning, memory, problem-solving, and comprehension. Conditions like dyslexia, ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), and intellectual disabilities are examples.

Psychiatric or mental health disabilities: These involve conditions that affect a person's mental well-being and functioning, such as depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.

Developmental disabilities: These typically manifest during infancy or childhood and impact physical, learning, language, or behavior development. Examples include autism spectrum disorder and Down syndrome.

Chronic illnesses: While not always considered disabilities in the traditional sense, chronic illnesses such as diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and fibromyalgia can significantly impact a person's daily life and functioning.

Acquired disabilities: These result from injury, illness, or other factors later in life, such as traumatic brain injury (TBI), stroke, or spinal cord injury.

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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..."

[agentc0rn]

Ok so…with careful thought zeth does have spectrophobia (fear of mirrors). 😔 I will need to do more research on it but for now i think I found a term that best describes his discomfort with reflections due to self esteem issues.

[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.

[maukuja]

I haven't really been able to get anything meaningful done during my sick leave (which is pretty much the whole of last month) but! today I did! I worked on an essay for 30min and then also worked on an art piece for ~1h! And I could've gone for more but I need to go see a cardiologist early tomorrow so I'm trying to get to bed early!! I'm trying to take more care of myself and succeeding so I am celebrating that :3

[fatfemmefreaquency]

seeing people uncritically discuss behavioural psych as if it hasn’t almost all been thoroughly debunked is wild to me

[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.

[lemememeringue]

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

[sleepystawbie]

When my husband says shit about himself like “I’m dumb” or “I’m just an idiot” I’m catching his ass on that and shooting that shit down nicely as I can.

“I’m dumb” “no you aren’t, you just didn’t remember a word”

“I’m just an idiot” “no, you are very smart, this is just something you weren’t aware of before now”

“I’m so dumb” “no, it’s been a long day and you’re tired”

He’s repeating shit that was yelled at him by shitty adults in his life when he was young and impressionable; he would never say the same things to me our any kids in our lives but kids are little sponges and mirror the adults in their lives - they will start saying the same thing about themselves without knowing where it came from. And even if that weren’t a concern I’d still want it to stop because it’s not fair on him. I won’t let him keep drinking from the poison chalice thrusted upon him as an undiagnosed and unsupported neurodivergent child.

[lyknest]

i love being gen z in corporate (behated) because someone will say "when i had my first job, way back in '99" and I'd reply with "oh i was born in '99" and then everyone will go silent and have an existential crisis LMAO

[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.