I mean, I don’t think we should look to the past for mental stability. Alcoholism, violence, and spousal/domestic abuse are all examples of things that were way more common and borderline-accepted back then. I’d rather someone’s reaction to stress be a panic attack rather than beating their children.
I think it’s more about acknowledging that a lot of people are hyperbolic so they can be perceived as a victim. Anxiety is a real thing but some people act like it’s the peak of human suffrage for attention, and that is worthy of laughing at, not the anxiety itself
human suffrage
I think you may want to look into what suffrage is. :B
Suffrage is one of those English language-internal false friends - you could easily confuse it with a personalised state of suffering, especially if English isn’t your first language (my bigger anxieties around this is finding out a word I used extensively has a different meaning than I thought)…
Or that you’ve been pronouncing a word wrong for years because you’ve only ever read it and never heard from another person. It happened to me multiple times that I’ve read a name usually from mythology wrong (swapping two adjacent letters) and then always read it like that until I pronounced it in front of somebody who corrected me.
Shaming addicts for going into withdrawal isn’t much different from shaming vets having ptsd
As a guy who worked with military a bunch, they also have panic attacks when they forget their vape at home. Lmfao old philipino guy i worked with was a vet and threw a 2 day hissy fit because he lost his vape at home and only quit when he got a new one from the base commissary.
Right, and their unresolved ptsd lead to them not being the best parents which was part of a cycle that led to you.
Even without bad parenting, ptsd can be inherited through epigenetics
I reckon the last bad thing that happened to my ancestors was the civil war.
The English civil war.
England after that has been no picnic
Right, but we fucked off the island and had a grand old time. There are no records that we were in any particular hardship since landing in America.
The other side of the family was busy yodeling in the alps until 1905. Maybe they got caught up in Napoleonic shit.
That kind of stuff always reminds me of an episode from a show about rich people. They showed a rich mother organizing a birthday party for her toddler that was ridiculously fancy and having a complete meltdown because some napkins were another shade of pink. That’s the worst that life has ever given her, a different shade of napkins.
Have you ever interacted with a toddler in real life? They freak the fuck out about weird shit. That’s just what they do. They’re insane. Doesn’t mean they’re spoiled brats. Just means they’re normal toddlers…
The adult mother was having a freak out, not the toddler.
I think the best option would be to get off of nicotine products. They aren’t exactly good for you.
They aren’t exactly good for you.
Or bad necessarily. From my understanding nicotine is similar to caffeine in that regard. The harm is in the other stuff you’re pumping into your lungs
Addiction is bad for you, and nicotine is really addictive if you let it rewire your brain (it is a dopamine agonist).
I stopped drinking coffee over a week. It took me over a decade to drop nicotine.
Yeah Nicotine is also very bad for your mental health long term. You become so hooked on it that you literally can not be happy without it.
It’s such a pacifier. And with vaping, you can get a little hit almost no matter where you are - don’t even need to step out for a break
It actually makes a lot of sense from a business. The vaping companies want you to live a long life hopelessly addicted.
Totally. It’s no wonder tobacco companies are deeply invested in smoking cessation and alternatives (or so I’ve heard - don’t ask me for a source).
