wowthanksimcured lol

I was thinkin it was the One Punch Man approach.

You're doing it! You're doing it!

But see yourself as spiderman's friendly friend, not as spiderman's arch Nemesis.

For more psychology you have to pay me 1000 bucks

It's sound advice and if someone can't incorporate it into their lives, they need to see a psychiatrist for medication. The psychologist will send you to one if they think you can't get there with out meds.

Someone literally said this to me once about depression. "That's what I did and it worked for me, so if you're still depressed it's because you're choosing to be."

I almost chose to Jazz-yeet him out of the house.

Anyway, it turned out the main reason for my depression was that I had been surrounded by toxic assholes for too long. Things vastly improved when I chose to change that so I guess it did work in a roundabout way.

If you've broken your leg, just walk it off.

You're so generous giving out advice like that for free.

When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead.

I have a very hard time reframing things

Because you are not supposed to. Emotions exist one layer of abstraction lower than consciousness, hence frontal lobe can't override them manually. It's evolutionary safety measure

Have you tried reframing things for fun?

I kinda get where you're coming from. I had a similar problem. I found it difficult to "Fake it 'til you make it", but I did find it easier to abstract it one layer. It just made sense in my head to fake faking it until I could fake making it because that's just pretending to lie. It still just makes sense to me.

I struggle with this too. My therapist is trying to help me with some aspects of it, usually trying to use a past accomplishment and applying it to what I currently have massive anxiety about. Doesn't always work cause my brain treats that past accomplishment as a mistake or something I shouldn't have gotten.

I think the post is great advice not communicated clearly.
Don't try making yourself believe important things are unimportant, practice.
Apply for a job you don't want or need. Get documents when you're already qualified for a fast track and could skip at any time. Do the long procedure just to see if it was possible had the other ways not worked out.
Have something changed that really doesn't matter.

This is calling for bureaucracy training.

I'm not a therapist but I've certainly visted more than my share.

"try not to think about it" is pretty much the antithesis of modern therapy.

directly attributable to systemic issues that have no end in sight

this part is true.

Broadly there are several potential solutions:

Firstly, changing the way that we think about events. If my company is insolvent would that mean I'm a bad business person or would it mean the economy is a mess. This is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - changing the behavior of our thought processes.

Secondly, accepting that things might go wrong and not being paralysed by that fear. My company might become insolvent, it wouldn't be the end of the world if it did, I'm going to take action to mitigate that problem. This is Acceptance Commitment Therapy - accepting the risk of bad things and committing to some kind of action.

Thirdly, living in the moment, observing thoughts both positive and negative coming and going. This is mindfulness.

In summary, anxiety or worry is a healthy and normal part of human existence. We're hard wired to avoid threats and we do that by foreseeing risks and planning around them. Trying not to worry is how the healthy and normal experience becomes debilitating.

I'm sure a real therapist will be along any moment to tell me all about how wrong my summary is. I'm ok with that.

systemic issues that have no end in sight

Some would disagree, just ask scientists how long the current trajectory can remain.

because a great deal of “mental illness” is directly attributable to systemic issues that have no end in sight

But absolutely nothing in the screenshot is attributable to systemic issues that have no end in sight 🤔 Anxiety around the things he listed can literally be cured through just doing them, aka exposure