Aneeqa
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@mindfulselforg
Neuroscience, psychology and mindfulness enthusiast. Psychotherapist, PhD, LPC. Enjoying this ideas 🎡 and learning.
Psychoanalyst Nancy McWilliams reminds us that every defense was once a creative solution to an intolerable problem. Digital dissociation developed because people needed it. Boredom, loneliness, interpersonal anxiety, grief, overstimulation: these are the emotional symptoms the phone manages. Telling someone to reduce screen time without addressing the underlying distress treats the fever by confiscating their thermometer. In our clinical work with clients who present with excessive screen time and phone use, we should explore what the screen manages, before recommending reduction. In my experience, the answer is almost always an emotion that the client lacks capacity to tolerate head on. They use the phone as a distracting, temporary balm.
In 2017, Alina Sternberg, a psychiatrist, was hit with crushing fatigue and brain fog. Neurologists told her the symptoms were caused by depression. "No, I can enjoy my life, and I know what depression is... I’m a psychiatrist!” It took 6 years to discover the culprit...🧵
Dr. Andrew Huberman stuns Bill Maher with an anti-phone brain hack that instantly helps you outperform your peers. A landmark study looked at 3 sets of people: • One group had their phones sitting in front of them • Another had phones tucked away • And the last group had their phones in another room The study found that the closer your phone was, the more mental energy it drained just to stay focused. “So when the phone’s out of the room, you see what looks like a boost in cognitive performance. It’s actually just getting people to baseline,” Dr. Huberman explained. Quoting David Goggins, Huberman said: “It’s never been easier nowadays to outperform your peers, but it’s mostly a function now of what you DON’T do.” “Just putting your phone away gives you what looks like a cognitive boost, but it just puts you on par with all the generations before you that didn’t have phones in the room.” BILL MAHER: “Wow.” If that Huberman health hack stood out to you, there’s a lot more where that came from. See it all on the main page: @VigilantFox
They capture the exact moment when a developing heart shifts from silence to its first beat. There is no “switch”: many cells gradually become active and, upon crossing a critical threshold, the entire tissue suddenly synchronizes.
