Re:How Anxiety Warps Your Perception
by tchock23 on Thursday September 29, 2016 @09:29AM
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[meta] The first part of the comment was about themselves, but the second part was a suggestion to improve an app which is absolutely a positive contribution to the conversion.
Re:How Anxiety Warps Your Perception
by ricardobeat on Saturday October 01, 2016 @03:49PM
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Parent commenter edited out most of the post after I made my comment.
Also, learning something new or changing a learned behavior is stressful. Following an established cognitive path feels easy, while going down new or little used pathways is straining. You're really not actually learning anything unless it feels difficult.
The first sentence on the page says it reduces stress and anxiety.
Most therapeutic (rather than pharmaceutical) approaches to treating anxiety that have a long-term impact, require you to focus on (or at least acknowledge) the stressful stimuli repeatedly in the short term:
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy requires that you focus on stressful thoughts to "pick them apart."
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_therapy requires that you experience a stress-trigger and "pass through" the initial phobic reaction to get to the point where you can neutrally observe that the stimuli isn't dangerous.
[meta] Your comment is solely about yourself and adds very little to the conversation.