Psychology

Guns?

Silencing your inner critic is not a thing you can finally do once and for all. If it were, there wouldn't be entire families of therapy approaches aimed at doing this.

Some things sometimes help some people. Ethan Kross has summarized modern findings in Chatter.

I like ideas from Internal Family Systems therapy (the voice in your head is trying to protect you, so show it gratitude while you remind yourself you're safe) and basic mindfulness (the thought is merely a pattern of the mind and you don't need to give attention to it, let alone believe it).

But, you know, that's just, like, my opinion, man.

Peace.

Long story short:

"Students who were asked to repeat ‘positive verbalisations’ between throws improved faster than a control group who simply rested between throws. Students who were asked to repeat ‘negative verbalisations’ performed the worst of all."

As someone who suffers from the internalized criticisms of my shitty parents, it's nice to know that self-affirmations can actually do some good. I'll take whatever I can get.

Pot is also effective.

I'd like to throw an anecdotal study into the research as well. Alcohol is INEFFECTIVE in this regard.

It's summarizing a lot of techniques used in cognitive behavioral therapy, which has entire studies confirming they work. And I can confirm from personal experience, they work, too.

"Finally"?

This is just CBT. Old news.

I wonder if cortisol levels can be measured and where I would sit on a chart