@funkatron I’ve had a bit of success with imagining the Bad Thoughts being bubbled, then extracted out of my head via a fishing line where I can “see” them in front of my face. And then I think, “I see you, but not right now.”
Repeat ad nauseum. But I feel like it can help take away some of the emotional sting.
@funkatron I probably spend too long trying to articulate these things, haha.
It’s hard ‘cos it’s this whole process of rewiring your brain to fix it. The more you just “try”to stop through willpower, the more your brain will fire those neuron circuits, because you’re placing attention on it. Brain basically says “oh, that must be important, I better keep doing that”, and on and on the merry-go-round goes. (1/2)
@whalecoiner I buy hard copies because sometimes I like the physical books, and then “acquire” regular PDFs and stick them on my tablet without any of that nonsense. Publisher gets their egregious payout and I get my digital textbook in a form I can actually bloody use. Everyone’s “happy”.
On this note though, OpenStax does really well with their online textbooks.