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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Before you just looked old, now youre actually old enough to not give a hoot what other people think.
You should watch the documentary about the Challenger and Columbia disasters because both are excellent examples in history of when people were essentially desensitized to a huge safety risk that existed and it cost the lives of astronauts. Especially the Columbia one, they do an excellent job of talking about this phenomenon and the psychology of it.
Before you just looked old, now youre actually old enough to not give a hoot what other people think.
Before you just looked old, now youre actually old enough to not give a hoot what other people think.
You should watch the documentary about the Challenger and Columbia disasters because both are excellent examples in history of when people were essentially desensitized to a huge safety risk that existed and it cost the lives of astronauts. Especially the Columbia one, they do an excellent job of talking about this phenomenon and the psychology of it.
You should watch the documentary about the Challenger and Columbia disasters because both are excellent examples in history of when people were essentially desensitized to a huge safety risk that existed and it cost the lives of astronauts. Especially the Columbia one, they do an excellent job of talking about this phenomenon and the psychology of it.
On a neurobiological level there are receptors that respond to neurotransmitters which are secreted with a stimulus. Exposing these receptors too much causes them to do several things, which results in a change to the receptor so it no longer binds. This leads to a lower response and less neuronal firing. The exact mechanism differs for each type of receptor and agonist.
On a neurobiological level there are receptors that respond to neurotransmitters which are secreted with a stimulus. Exposing these receptors too much causes them to do several things, which results in a change to the receptor so it no longer binds. This leads to a lower response and less neuronal firing. The exact mechanism differs for each type of receptor and agonist.
On a neurobiological level there are receptors that respond to neurotransmitters which are secreted with a stimulus. Exposing these receptors too much causes them to do several things, which results in a change to the receptor so it no longer binds. This leads to a lower response and less neuronal firing. The exact mechanism differs for each type of receptor and agonist.
Lots of good comments in here, but since nobody has thrown in the obligatory pedantic comment yet, I’ll do it.
What is commonly called desensetisation is correctly termed habituation. Desensetisation is a thing, but it’s not the thing that most people think it is, which is a return to baseline after sensetisation. Sensetisation is what you might call the opposite of habituation, but both are a movement away from a normal baseline, in opposite directions.
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