"Interpersonal Systemic Shame makes it easy to see people's laziness, sloppiness, or apathy as the source of the problem rather than a consequence of repeated structural failures. Interpersonal Systemic Shame often involves blaming and shaming people who share identities or experiences with us, because they reflect the qualities we've been conditioned to hate in ourselves."
- Unlearning Shame, Devon Price, PhD
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I felt that. I deleted all my social media accounts too and while I wouldn't say I'm feeling great now, it helped with getting rid of a lot of negativity. However, it also means there's less people to talk to. That's what I appreciate hexbear for, because even if we have problems here, there's also a chance to talk things out. It is more humane than most other online interactions.
The subreddits for games can be really terrible. What games are you playing though? Maybe there's some people here who want to chat about these games or can help if you're stuck on a puzzle or something.
I can't make the negativity go away, but I can leave you a little hug, if you want one
I mostly play the elder scrolls online, but I’ve been playing for hours everyday so I’m getting a bit burnt out, which sucks because I still have so much story to get through 😭 I’m probably going to start back up again on January 1st in the hopes that we get new mounts in the in game store. Right now I’m playing Frontiers of Pandora because of the new DLC that came out, I was really into it last winter and made a ton of Ikran skin mods, I’ve always been kind of obsessed with Avatar just because the word is so captivating and I really like the alien biology, plants, and animals, even if it’s not very realistic lol.
Mostly I was in the subreddits for news and updates about the game and to see people’s characters and learn about lore but a lot of the posts were pretty negative 😔 oh well. At least ESO has a lot of tutorials available for when I inevitably get stumped by a puzzle haha
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