We've been groomed to be distracted.

Do NOT pass the brain cell to me! Keep it for me! Don't ever mention it to me again!

Where is this image from and do you have it without the text? 👀

I have to keep myself constantly distracted as well, or I think about how I shouldn't be around anymore. It has been a few years like this already...

stop it you're making me think

Ya I'm getting off a solid like 9 months of keeping myself so busy that I didn't have to think. The burnout isn't worth it, trust.

Does it help you not to think or not to feel?

Or does it allow you not to think about how something makes you feel? Or not think about why you don't feel anything even when you should?

It's easy to confuse emotional numbing with "not thinking," but usually, when people intentionally immerse themselves completely in a task to avoid their thoughts, it's because the thoughts make them feel uncomfortable. Usually that uncomfortable feeling is your body's way of signaling something is important, and you're not doing yourself any favors by just avoiding it. That doesn't mean you should act on it, but stuffing it down doesn't make it go away forever. Eventually it's going to pop up again, probably at a very inconvenient time.

If you're intentionally distracting yourself in order to not let yourself think, you risk doing something dumb. If you're not letting yourself feel, you risk acting like a sociopath.

That was my favourite part about university, at least in the fun classes. I had something to do and a goal to work towards. I still do stuff for that exact reason, to distract myself from everything else that's going on, both on a global scale as well as in my own life.

I sent this image to my son with included picture of my Wi-Fi not working. This is what he gets for being my tech Guy

Yeah I'm the same. In fact without my fidget cube I can't even focus on what people are saying to me. It's like my brain is a bunch of twitchy squirrels constantly looking for something new. It often feels like the world isn't running at the right speed for me. But I've got used to it now and actually in a crisis it comes in really handy I've found.

How do you try to keep yourself on "good distractions" and away from "bad ones"?

Lain! Been forever since I've watched that anime.

That's also kinda depressionmemes (if that exists).