āi donāt understand how you just get so much stuff done under pressure and like donāt freak outā i just go into autopilot bro like i genuinely do not know what happens in high volume situations. i let my body deal with that shit. not for me
if you completely block off a whole portion of your mind youāll find that it is actually quite peaceful and you can move very fast, almost ungodly so, and achieve a lot while feeling absolutely nothing
i have been informed that this is not how normal people process and handle stress.⦠. dam that shitās crazy. sorry yāall have to deal with it in like a rational healthy way
So for the record as both a long-term user of this feature and someone who had what Iām about to talk about happen to her:Ā
If you rely on this too much you are at ever increasing risk of it not working anymore, very abruptly, at a really horribly inconvenient time.Ā
You are also at risk of it working less and less over time when you have no other coping mechanisms in place.Ā
And finally even if it continue to work, you are doing continual damage to your ability to handle non-crisis situations! And increasing the chance that you will start unconsciously turning everythingĀ into a crisis.Ā
All three of these options are Sub-Optimal, to say the least.Ā
(this is because this method is essentially harnessing the dissociative capacity of the brain for moments of extreme trauma more or less At Will except the will involved amounts to convincing your amygdala to let go of the right juices by convincing it that the tiger is in fact right there. It can be a superpower! But itās also, well. Risky. If you find yourself literally doing it for everything, be aware that itās kind of like running an engine at max at all times without ever really replenishing the oil. Eventually you will start burning shit.)Ā
I think thereās potentially one more option that occurs if youāre *especially* good at this, and itās that your threshold for ācrisisā unconsciously becomes higher and higher.
Oh, you wrote that paper in a week no problem? Now itās not a crisis until three days before.
That worked okay? Now itās not a crisis until the day before.
That worked out too? Hey, now the crisis point isnāt until *the day of*.
This is how I ended up writing a 30 page PhD level literature review in 12 hoursāand presenting on it the next dayāduring finals week. And you know what? That sucked! It almost just didnāt happen!
Because at some point, your brain is going to just believe nothing is a crisis anymore. It fails to recognize pain. And pain is important, because itās a sign that something has gone deeply, deeply wrong. If you believe that nothing is a crisis, *you will not know youāre in a crisis situation until youāve fallen off the cliff of what is possible*. You will not recognize the pressure youāre under until itās crushing you, and possibly not even then.
And this doesnāt just affect your work or school; you donāt recognize these signs in your relationships either, and it primes you to be able to take whatever others may do to you. Itās not even that it lowers your self esteem and makes you believe that you deserve itāyou literally just cannot recognize when situations are harmful anymore. Have you ever told someone a āfunnyā story from childhood and they look at you and reply āholy shit, Iām sorry you went through that?ā Yeah, thatās your whole life now.
If this sounds dire, itās because it is. Do NOT let yourself get to this point if you can.
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