Here is an article discussing it.

I would personally think that Buddhist techniques like mindfulness and meditation would be helpful here.

I don’t know how I really achieved it, but one thing I do remember I did was altering my negative self-talk so I would be alarmed and notice I was doing it.

I basically changed “I should kill myself” to “I should kill (some other specific person)”, as the latter horrified me. Might be a similar technique.

We remember those moments with shame because we keep reliving them and reveling in the shame.

Remembering something taints the memory with your current mindset.

When those memories come up, choose a different response. Laugh at yourself. Forgive yourself. Love yourself.

Those memories will change in response when you stop the self-abuse. And it really does feel better too.

I was hoping more for the “living in my head rent free” pricing tier.

Lately the reason that I hate it is that when I click on the channel and start typing, it starts browsing through the channel link instead of putting what I type into the channel. And it’s intermittent, so much more infuriating.

I’m 50 and have severe IBS. That, combined with a hernia I didn’t know I had, almost killed me.

I spent a decade back living with my parents in my 30s trying to figure it out, get healthy, and rebuild my life again.

Then my job became taking care of my mom while she died.

I kept myself sane with gaming, and did a favor for a local on the game Kingdom of Loathing. Didn’t know he was a local at the time, but as thanks he gifted me some pot plants.

That gave me a stake. My dad and I raised and sold those and pulled ourselves away from financial ruin.

At the same time a woman on that game took an interest in me and it got very serious very fast… because I was desperate and she was insane.

Once I pulled myself away from that I looked to dating sites and met my now wife.

As her sister has IBS, she was able to recognize that my condition was worse than just IBS alone. Because I was on public assistance at that time I was able to get the surgery and start recovering.

Problem is that I’d spent a decade training myself to panic when I needed to shit. And I’ve largely dialed that back, helping my other anxieties in the process.

We’ve been married a decade. I have a crappy corporate job that’s WFH so I love that. My own toilet and food makes my daily anxieties easier to cope with, and I hang out with my pets all day.

SPISPOPD stands for ‘Smashing pumpkins into small piles of putrid debris’.

Back in the usenet days I remember someone making a crappy freeware game with that title.

That’s right, a cheat code in a game inspired the creation of another game.

My family group would love this, but my friend group would not.

Not surprisingly, my friends haven’t watched Taskmaster but most of my family group have.

My cousin was even on the covid bit where they aired people doing a task in their kitchen. He isn’t in the group, but his parents are.

Can’t you just tell us what it is and not send us to YouTube?

I thought that might be the case, but clarity wins out with me.

Final season of Lost, viewers dubbed the weird plotline that replaced the flashbacks ‘the purgatory’ they were all in until each had died and they could move on together.

Nah, they’d just assume they’d died a year ago and were in purgatory since then.

Thanks, that was my only confusion. I understand there are downsides, of course.

I like Tylenol PM. (or whatever version of otc painkiller you prefer)

She says when it’s an eye thing, go in to be safe. It can get bad quickly.

My wife is a vet tech, I’ll ask her tonight for an opinion.

Nah. He’s fine.

His name is Clifford.

It really does seem that the powers that be have forgotten. The right to strike is a compromise with management to avoid damage to company property and intentional sabotage. To quell the anger and violence.

These rights were paid for with blood, and they will be again if needed.

We are angry again. And they’re gonna test us.

Children.