I don’t know why, but the second any park has a boardwalk of any kind I lose my mind. I don’t care if it is only like ten feet long. Coolest shit ever. 11/10. Best park ever.
I know what people are getting at when they say not to do this but I do actually appreciate knowing if someone’s mental illness is at work when they give me an apology? like I don’t think it’s wrong to say “sorry for ghosting you, I had a paranoid episode and could barely look at my phone for two months” or “sorry for missing this event, I was really depressed and couldn’t get out of bed” or “sorry I acted really weird and left quickly the other day, something triggered me and I couldn’t figure out how to cool down until I was alone” because those are full and complete answers that would be less accurate if the symptom were edited out. I know what those things mean and I would actually prefer to know if my friend messed something up for reasons not entirely within their control rather than have them attempt to take responsibility for things they already actively try to avoid doing.
to clear up a type of response to this post that I’ve been started getting more often, in no way shape or form was the intended takeaway here meant to be “you should share sensitive personal information with people even if it makes you uncomfortable, and if you don’t then that’s wrong,” this isn’t me responding to people who value their privacy, this is me responding to people who say it’s inappropriate or manipulative to bring up one’s mental illness in explanations for any hurt caused. I don’t think any of my phrasing implies the contrary, but I’m sorry if it does, and would appreciate if anyone could point out what exactly I said that isn’t clear on that front.
honestly a lot of the reason I made this post is that I personally have a hard time bringing this stuff up with people I care about and have a tendency to dance around and obfuscate the reasons that I sometimes mess things up, and while it is completely within my rights to keep things like that to myself, it can sometimes lead my friends to think that my actions come from a lack of care rather than a lack of ability, and I don’t get to have their support with The Symptom. verbalizing that I don’t actually find this style of communication to be some kind of social faux pas and seeing that uhh [checks notes] lots of people agree with me helps the idea of being a bit more vulnerable with people I trust seem a little more comfortable.
I’m not a psychology researcher, but my guess would be that the nature of it being a time-limited puzzle game where you have to juggle multiple factors means that your short-term memory gets filled and the traumatic images are “dumped” in favor of remembering how many times to rotate the L piece. “As soon as possible” is probably because the sooner you do it, the less likely it is to become part of your long-term memory.
If that is true, then other time-limited activities where you have to remember and plan in a tight time frame may serve a similar purpose.
This can have an effect hours after the traumatic event happens too! All participants were treated within about 6 hours and played for a total of 20 minutes of Tetris (with at least one play time of 10 minutes straight).
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