Mental Health

because when your default is to process everything deeply, you don’t get to be careless with what you carry. and if you don’t consciously make space to reset, your thoughts will start to multiply — not because they’re urgent, but because there’s nowhere for them to land. the absence of emotional hygiene means everything starts to feel equally loud.... See more

when you take an ironic, negative, or numb attitude to everything, you are by definition not on the line for solutions, and when you stop looking for solutions, you lose all agency and will in your life.

emotional hygiene is recognizing the early symptoms of overstimulation and choosing not to intellectualize your way through them. it’s noticing the urge to self-diagnose, to decode, to debrief and instead, gently interrupting the loop. not to silence it, but to create room around it. so your nervous system has a chance to downshift before your... See more