I unfortunately look a lot older than what I am, and because of that, I’ve experienced a lot of people online making fun of any picture of me that was posted online, I’ve also had people making very derogatory comments about me and my age online too. At first these comments shattered my self esteem and gave me depression.
However now, after two years, these comments don’t bother me at all. They have no affect on me. Sometimes, I respond to the comments with my own age-related, self depreciative jokes. The comments don’t make me sad, angry or ashamed anymore.
How did my brain go from feeling depressed and ashamed reading these comments online to my current “I don’t really care lol” state of mind?
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Experience plus growth equals desensitization. Once you’ve experienced it, it’s no longer new to you, therefore, familiar. It’s no longer a mystery or some unknown that can hurt you. Its the real proof we’re just a learning computer code in the matrix.
Your brain is designed to look for patterns. It finds patterns comfortable, because they let it predict what will happen. When you experience something many times, your brain simply recognises it and (since nothing bad happened before) doesn’t expect anything bad to happen this time either. It learned that becoming upset before wasn’t needed.
Experience plus growth equals desensitization. Once you’ve experienced it, it’s no longer new to you, therefore, familiar. It’s no longer a mystery or some unknown that can hurt you. Its the real proof we’re just a learning computer code in the matrix.
Experience plus growth equals desensitization. Once you’ve experienced it, it’s no longer new to you, therefore, familiar. It’s no longer a mystery or some unknown that can hurt you. Its the real proof we’re just a learning computer code in the matrix.
Your brain is designed to look for patterns. It finds patterns comfortable, because they let it predict what will happen. When you experience something many times, your brain simply recognises it and (since nothing bad happened before) doesn’t expect anything bad to happen this time either. It learned that becoming upset before wasn’t needed.
Your brain is designed to look for patterns. It finds patterns comfortable, because they let it predict what will happen. When you experience something many times, your brain simply recognises it and (since nothing bad happened before) doesn’t expect anything bad to happen this time either. It learned that becoming upset before wasn’t needed.
It’s like The Boy Who Cried Wolf: Initially the mind is perceiving threats, but if the threats never manifest in any actual consequences the mind stops taking the threats seriously.
It’s like The Boy Who Cried Wolf: Initially the mind is perceiving threats, but if the threats never manifest in any actual consequences the mind stops taking the threats seriously.
It’s like The Boy Who Cried Wolf: Initially the mind is perceiving threats, but if the threats never manifest in any actual consequences the mind stops taking the threats seriously.
1. Event happen to you.
2. Nothing really bad happened as a result
3. Your brain is going “Well. I guess it’s not really something dangerous to my well-being”
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