once every couple of weeks a tweet or tiktok will go viral where some 19 year old psych student will go “did you know: feeling a bit sad when you’re hungry is actually a symptom of multiple mental illnesses? crazy right!?” or some other kind of normal behaviour pathologized and it’ll get tens of thousands of shares and a bunch of people in the comments will go “WAIT omg normal people don’t feel this way??” and we are a little further from world peace
I needed this drag. Let’s change guys and not look back
working out your brain is a must!!
• hydrate it by drinking lots of water
• eat dark chocolate and blueberries and walnuts and salmon and other foods high in antioxidants!!
• play little brain games on your phone; I like wordconenct! anything that makes you think!
• read books. It’s simple but necessary. Even better - join a book club, or read with a friend, so you can have discussions after. This will improve your reading comprehension.
• do puzzles - it doesnt have to be sudoku, I love playing Beat Saber on the Oculus Rift because it makes my brain have to match colorful patterns to physical movements very quickly!
• learn a new dance - even a tik tok trendy dance. Learning new dance moves are proven to strengthen synapses!!
• go bird watching, or foraging, or anything outdoors that requires you to explore pattern recognition and visual searching
• watch a movie with the intent of analysis - this is best done with a cinephile friend!! talk about tropes and symbolism and character growth
• cross stitch, or sew, or do anything that requires matching nimble hand movements to patterns
• play or learn an instrument!
• develop a consistent sleep schedule (or as close to consistent as you can get!)
• when eating, try to identify the ingredients and flavors you’re perceiving!
I hope this helps :)
I like how this went from me feeling like “hm why is this attacking me 🤨” at first, but feeling grateful seeing an added guide on a genuine expansion on a “ how to” work out the brain. This genuinely helps a bunch. People find solace in doing activities that get them through life by doing said activities of phone/tv or if that’s all they’ve ever known in their life to get them through things + etc tho. However, this was very impt to point out. Slowly beginning incorporating things to work the brain in ones own time.
i know this website talks a lot about how we all wish we’d never grown up but very few scenes hit me like the one in 13 going on 30 where jenna realises she doesn’t like the person she’s become so she goes back home and vienna by billy joel is playing and she sees a group of teenage girls and she realises how badly she wishes she was still a child and when she gets to her childhood home it’s empty so she sits in the closest and cries as she desperately wishes to be thirteen again and when her parents come home she cries into their shoulders like she’s a little girl again and can’t fall asleep until she’s lying next to her mother in bed…like. what the fuck was that. i’m crying just thinking about it.
the year is 2039 im in the middle of a 14 hour shift driving a cyber hands free semi-truck that needs a human monitor to keep it from blowing through red lights indiscriminately. since the water is undrinkable we’re back to drinking beer instead im drunk and the AI hologram personified as a non threatening woman with a computer voice in the passenger seat keeps trying to seduce me because fucking the hologram is a fireable offense and the company is trying to downsize
