#absurdity
What is one heart amongst a crowd? A single beat among thousands? A drop of blood in a river of viens? If all were silence The beating in a crowd Would be all that’s heard. The deafening thumping. All contained in our bone cages. What is one heart amongst a crowd? A life within a network? A human in all of humanity. With every new life each year grows One year longer. With every death one year…
fun tip:
anxiety is not cured by forcing a person into the situation that makes them anxious
Actually, according to psychology, it is.
Exposure therapy is one of the most popular and successful therapies for anxiety sufferers. People with anxiety tend to avoid situations that make them anxious, thus leading to them never overcoming the source of their fear. Exposure therapy allows the sufferer to gradually gain control, lessening the impact of, and desensitizing them to the fear and allowing them to overcome it. Of course, this could be taken out of context and used in an extreme (and, since this is Tumblr, if the wrong person reads this response, it will surely be done) but spreading this type of misinformation and making younger people believe that avoiding anxieties instead of learning to cope with and overcome them is foolish and harmful.
Avoiding the source of your anxiety is not a cure for anxiety.
Original series AU where everything is the same except any time Spock talks about logic he says it the way Sir Bedevere does in Monty Python
The world says: “You have needs, satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don’t hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more.” This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
_ Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept
Don’t Hug Me, I’m Scared, Joseph Pelling & Rebecca Sloan
“Green is not a creative colour”
Don’t Hug Me, I’m Scared, Joseph Pelling & Rebecca Sloan