No no no no, don’t do that. Don’t listen to anything more than maybe music in the shower. You desperately need to not do that. Seriously. I don’t know if you need to, to regulate or whatnot, but if you don’t need to, please consider giving your nervous system that time and space.
I enjoy listening to NPR and Apple News when getting ready. It’s not every day, and it keeps me minimally informed. The tearing up doesn’t happen that often. I was just providing an anecdote.
That’s good that it doesn’t happen every time, but I’m speaking more of specifically filling what is otherwise a really important introspective time that lets your brain sort of decompress and relax and be free, and tethers it to others’ thoughts and words. We already fill all of our lives with stimulation and attention stealing algorithms and awful bullshit, we need to do what we can to reclaim our own abilities to self stabilize, and to do that, I think it’s important to have times of relaxation where we’re free to have our own thoughts. It’s very possible I’m projecting, but on the off chance I’m not, I seriously encourage you to try to be alone with your thoughts more often, and the shower, at least to me, is kind of a sacred time and space to breathe deeply and calmly and let our nervous systems recover. You don’t get that when you’re filling that time and space with, no offense and not pertaining to your taste, but, essentially, garbage. That just isn’t a good trade at all, in my opinion.
In the shower I like noise and whatnot and am able to still have a pretty relaxing time. Plus NPR is just a few minutes and just facts.
I’m lucky I get to walk and take public transit to/from work, so that’s my quiet time. Even if I’m on the phone doing my daily gatcha game or scrolling lemmy, I still get moments of quiet and introspection. I was diagnosed with depression last year, and I think it was a big part of just dopamine burnout with ADHD and the news cycle, but I’m doing much better on medication, and it’s allowed me to step back and quiet my thoughts a little more too. :)
Everyone is different, but thanks for being concerned for your neighbor lemmy user and taking the time to explain!
No no no no, don’t do that. Don’t listen to anything more than maybe music in the shower. You desperately need to not do that. Seriously. I don’t know if you need to, to regulate or whatnot, but if you don’t need to, please consider giving your nervous system that time and space.
I enjoy listening to NPR and Apple News when getting ready. It’s not every day, and it keeps me minimally informed. The tearing up doesn’t happen that often. I was just providing an anecdote.
That’s good that it doesn’t happen every time, but I’m speaking more of specifically filling what is otherwise a really important introspective time that lets your brain sort of decompress and relax and be free, and tethers it to others’ thoughts and words. We already fill all of our lives with stimulation and attention stealing algorithms and awful bullshit, we need to do what we can to reclaim our own abilities to self stabilize, and to do that, I think it’s important to have times of relaxation where we’re free to have our own thoughts. It’s very possible I’m projecting, but on the off chance I’m not, I seriously encourage you to try to be alone with your thoughts more often, and the shower, at least to me, is kind of a sacred time and space to breathe deeply and calmly and let our nervous systems recover. You don’t get that when you’re filling that time and space with, no offense and not pertaining to your taste, but, essentially, garbage. That just isn’t a good trade at all, in my opinion.
In the shower I like noise and whatnot and am able to still have a pretty relaxing time. Plus NPR is just a few minutes and just facts.
I’m lucky I get to walk and take public transit to/from work, so that’s my quiet time. Even if I’m on the phone doing my daily gatcha game or scrolling lemmy, I still get moments of quiet and introspection. I was diagnosed with depression last year, and I think it was a big part of just dopamine burnout with ADHD and the news cycle, but I’m doing much better on medication, and it’s allowed me to step back and quiet my thoughts a little more too. :)
Everyone is different, but thanks for being concerned for your neighbor lemmy user and taking the time to explain!
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