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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Our brains detect things when they vary from the norm. It’s the reason we can’t taste the inside of our mouth, the smell of the air of our house, and pay almost no attention to the feeling of the cloths we are wearing. If we did perceive these things it would be near constant over stimulation, while also giving us zero new information.
Instead our brains are constantly adjusting what our “normal,” is, whether it has to do with our senses or other external stimuli. If something happens again and again, it becomes the new norm and we stop realizing they’re even there because it’s not telling us anything new.
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