Complex PTSD Recovery [Reports]: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers

A month full of dealing with fear and determining who to be. In this release from the patreon stream, we talk about the terrors of time when you have a traumatized brain. Inconsistency, lapses, wormholes and sandtraps... we live in temporal funhouses. Let's talk about how an unstandard relationship with time affects our relationships and what to do about it.

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Not to call it 'experiential wisdom,' but... if 5 things were gained in 2025?

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Says it all. These are the most impact-making findings in the research conducted 2025.

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'Stop seeing everything so negatively." they say. But the cognitive behaviors underlying depression don't allow it. Let's talk about mental reactions and sticky patterns that outweigh false brightsides.

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This conversation delves into the cognitive basis of depression, focusing on how neural networks, memory games, language, cognitive inhibition inhibition, outdated working memory, and rumination contribute to depressive states. It explores the mechanisms behind cognitive depression, compassionate views for the state of human suffering, and offers strategies for managing depression through attention training and environmental changes.

takeaways
Neural networks, schemas, and representations automatically shape our understanding of experiences.
Even singular stimulation events can activate depressive schemas, limiting potential perceptions.
Memory biases in depression lead to a resonating focus on negative experiences.
Over generalized and explicit memories are unique experiences associated with depression.
Cognitive inhibition is ironically inhibited during depression.
Working memory cannot update with relevant material under depressive spells.
Emotional regulation is hindered by cognitive control loss in depression.
Rumination causes or exacerbates depression, anxiety, and PTSD due to a negative focus on the self.
Automatic reckoning with the human condition may be the cause of many varieties of cognitive disorders.
Training attention can redirect focus away from negativity.
Ambiguous or negative social environments spark rumination which leads to depression.
Changing environments and behaviors can help disrupt negative neural networks.
Understanding the cognitive processes behind depression can bolster compassion and help deactivate negative schemas.

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cognitive depression, memory bias, cognitive inhibition, working memory, overgeneralized memory, semantic memory, rumination, emotional regulation, reappraisal, self-doubt, neural networks
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"Peer Pressure is a high school problem." Or is it? Let's talk about adult brains drunk on social influence through the illusions and purposeful manipulations of the internet.

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The conversation explores the pervasive effects of internet influence and peer pressure on society, highlighting how these factors have radicalized identities and impacted human psychology. Algorithms are particularly implicated as the highly corruptive "third party affiliations" that we don't directly choose, which then keep us locked within social groups and cliques. The human need to conform for safety yet also establish a unique identity within the constraints of that similarity is driving personalities to aggressive extremes.

takeaways
The same factors that promote peer pressure in adolescence are being experienced by adults on the internet.
PP has become an age indiscriminate phenomenon that has radicalized identities and contributed to ruining the world by hijacking human psychology.
The internet has returned us all to a high school social experience of self-definition and seeking identity options.
Popular figures are especially influential due to illusion of proximity and desire for similar social reward.
Conformity is required to remain within social groups, often necessitating "third party affiliations" to stay aligned.
One-on-one relationships value authenticity; clique relationships value similarity of behavior.
Algorithms force us into designated groups, which then corrupt the mind to conform without conscious decision.
Mechanized manipulation has taken over the human species, from the top-down.
The social brain is programmed to conform yet also establish a unique identity - driving group ideals to new extremes as a personal brand.

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social influence, peer pressure, identity, psychology, societal change, social aggression, algorithms, manipulation, mind control, identity corruption, group think
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