Yeah, and when you've been in a place where your worst nightmares about what people will think of you are repeatedly articulated, like Tumblr, it just makes everything worse. Like, with us on Tumblr, people didn't even have to say it to us; we were treated as having some kind of seniority I'm not sure if we really had, because we could pull out old studies and books and cite them. But seeing certain things said to other people made us acutely aware "they hate us too, even if they don't know it."
It's a waste of energy, but I think it's also your brain trying to defend itself in some way, scrolling through bad scenarios and trying to come up with answers to them. It may never come to pass, but some kind of survival instinct feels it's better than ignoring it. I guess the challenge is always how to strike a balance between the extremes.
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Date: 2018-09-21 08:57 am (UTC)It's a waste of energy, but I think it's also your brain trying to defend itself in some way, scrolling through bad scenarios and trying to come up with answers to them. It may never come to pass, but some kind of survival instinct feels it's better than ignoring it. I guess the challenge is always how to strike a balance between the extremes.
-Istevia