German, Dad, GM , Mini Painter, 3D Printer, dysfunctional gifted kid - he/him

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I got out of severe depression by trying and keeping at it to do these things I didn’t even believe could help me anymore. Surprise, they did. Yes it took long and was hard. But it is possible to do even a little bit.

    The part telling me I can’t do it and saying I shouldn’t even try cus I won’t do it anyways, that is part of the depression too. It is self sustaining.

    In my mind the trick that worked was: if everything is shit no matter what, if I hate every second anyways no matter what I do, if nothing will change how miserable I am, then taking a short walk won’t change anything for the worse either, not to any significant degree anyways.

    That way bit by bit my absolute apathy tricked itself into doing things because it didn’t matter either way. And slowly shit got tiny bits better.











  • Disabling all push notifications has helped. Also having a watch instead of looking up the time on my phone. Generally doing things in an analogue way sometimes. Its also often more fun but can become an attention trap in itself. Anyone who ever spent 3h making their to do list beautiful knows.

    However sometimes it will just happen. It is part of our lives to some extend no matter how good we get at avoiding them.




  • RQG@lemmy.worldtoscience@lemmy.world•Your Scientism is Cringe
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    2 months ago

    I don’t know the context that spawned this rant. However I think scientists and the scientific community are often way too dogmatic and full of ideology these days. Also people tend to be way too stuck in the narrow views of their field. So in a way I agree that questioning the generally accepted interpretations, used methods and so on is a good thing.

    So if someone holds their postulate and interpretation without probable causality as the only truth that is not in the spirit of science.

    When acting upon scientific evidence however one often will have to be more pragmatic and some form of consensus has to be reached even if the methods likely can’t fulfil our ideas of science. In that regard maybe your views shown in your comments are a bit narrow as well. But it doesn’t mean yours wrong.