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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Your reactions to stimuli are (broadly) chemical stuff in your body/brain. As you are exposed to the same stimulus repeatedly, your body reduces the amount of chemicals/nerves firing, and so you feel less.
As to why this happens… I don’t think it’s known for sure. One hypothesis is that if we were equally stimulated by the same thing forever, we’d never switch activities/look for new things and would possibly starve.
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