Same..I avoid it as best I can, minus what I actively seek out/have interest in.
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Emotional/Social Pain
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Same..I avoid it as best I can, minus what I actively seek out/have interest in.
Sgt. Pepper
All you need is love.
I've had to give up horror movies, scary TV shows, most movies and TV shows, fictional and non-fictional books, and the news. I can tolerate social media to a limit. I gave up Facebook altogether. I'm on X and Instagram, but at a limited capacity. I have to step away from this forum sometimes too. It can be overwhelming for me. I can tune out emotions for the most part when I'm out in public. I had to learn how, or else I wouldn't be able to leave my house.
Sgt. Pepper
All you need is love.
I shouldn't participate in political debates, but I do sometimes. I feel like I should do the same regarding religious debates. However, it is therapeutic for me to talk about my past experiences with Christianity. In a way, I feel like I'm helping others who are going through or have been through similar trauma, just as I help other former Christians in my survivors of abuse support group. Now that is where I really have to focus on controlling my empathic ability.
We Never Know
No Slack
"We seem to think that, if we can't see it, it's not that bad. Even though we all feel these things through the same processes""When people feel emotional pain, the same areas of the brain get activated as when people feel physical pain: the anterior insula and the anterior cingulate cortex."
Emotional and Physical Pain Activate Similar Brain Regions
In order to get over grief, resolve anger, and even embrace happiness, we have to really feel those things in the body.www.psychologytoday.com
"Although the brain does not process emotional pain and physical pain identically, research on neural pathways suggests there is substantial overlap between the experience of physical and social pain. The cascading events that occur and regions activated in our brains - and therefore our reactions to the acute pain - appear to be similar.."
Emotional & Physical Pain Are Almost The Same - To Your Brain
Rejection hurts. Whether you’ve been told ‘no thank you’ for a job opportunity, become estranged from a partner or friend, or even been unfollowed on a social media or dating site, your brain has to process being rejected. And neuroscience suggests that it literally - hurts.www.forbes.com
Now, I would also extend this further and say that chronic pain is also felt similarly and not just acute pain. This seems like a common sense extension to me. And I think the first article actually touched on this.
So, why does it seem that societally we seem so dismissive of people's mental/emotional pains?
"It's not that bad.."
"Just wait, time heals.."
Etc.
We seem to think that, if we can't see it, it's not that bad. Even though we all feel these things through the same processes.
Exatly! Now apply that to all the **** your give people here. You cant see it but they feel it.
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I try not to give people **** here for that reason.
We Never Know
No Slack
Exactly!. We have no clue what others are experiencing.
Sadly many don't realize that.
My bad day might be someones best day.
IOW.... We Never Know
Yup. And you never know
how profoundly your words can affect someone on the internet... for the positive or the negative.
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No Slack
"how profoundly your words can affect someone on the internet."Yup. And you never know
I do have a very good ideal. Sadly many here don't and run rampant with their BS.
And since you are a staff member, its seems RF rules have became relaxed or have been overlooked because there seems to be many things that used to be a violation that seem to now occur daily(personal attacks, name calling, degrading, etc) with no repercussion.
But I am just a bystander on the sidelines.
Folks gotta report it.
Its something we staff really can't stress enough.
We don't get everywhere. We can't see every post. If something seems like a problem, report it so we can help. If we don't know its there, we can't fix it.
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No Slack
If I reported all I see, you all would require overtime. But I am not a snitch.
I respect what youns do but its not my job.
We're not required to do anything, really... we're all volunteers.
It certainly isn't your job to report things, but keeping the place civil takes a group effort. What we get out will be what we(both members and staff) put in.
RestlessSoul
Well-Known Member
Yeah, **** watching the news. Seriously thinking about throwing my phone in the river tbh.
We Never Know
No Slack
George I don't know you any more than I know a person from Timbuktu. But we have had a few conversations and from those I respect you.
I don't know what you have to deal with here and I don't want to know. But cheers to you and the other staff that endure all the BS.
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Sgt. Pepper
All you need is love.
I agree with you, and I think that proselytizing and preaching Christianity are also getting out of hand. But, of course, this is just my observation.
Depends on context though. Part of my job involves deciding who from my team does what work, including myself. I can't afford to believe the squeakiest hinge is actually the one needing the oil.