- opens Twitter
- sees only two categories of posts: far-right hate propaganda, and people whose brains have been so cooked by far-right hate propaganda that they think the most important and effective countermeasure is to extensively QT it with "um, wow, logical inconsistency much, Mr. Kill_Them_All_1488??? 🤔🤔🤔"
- closes Twitter
- oh no, every other potential activity requires slightly more sustained mental effort
- opens Twitter
things that do not help with behavioral compulsions:
- "stop doing that"
- "maybe you could force yourself to stop doing that?"
- "set up bad consequences for doing that. you will definitely not decide 12 seconds later that you are willing to suffer the bad consequences and now have more problems"
things that do help:
- substitute activities! Since realizing I was spiraling I've played a few rounds of Wingspan and done the sketches for 2 new paintings and while it does take somewhat more mental effort, it also brings me vastly more peace and pleasure
Sorry, I meant a "viral poem." (The book is Doppelganger by Naomi Klein)
