Le Mouse wrote: ↑Sun Aug 22, 2021 9:39 am
... often 'getting on with things' or having something else to focus on or take you out of yourself as it were, can have restorative results. But if your brain chemicals aren't working properly for some reason, there's only so far that 'getting on with things' will go before you snap.
That's the one - if you haven't experienced it, it's understandable that 'getting on with things' seems to always be reasonable. But that "snap" - it's not often the dramatic things of people taking a gun and shooting indiscriminately or "suicide by cop" - it's often things that go relatively unnoticed - people not going out, or working but crying themselves to sleep, or medicating with alcohol. The symptoms aren't dramatic - "florid" is the technical term - so those people don't often get help.
Distraction via work, as grenfell mentions - yep, it's real, and while the distraction is going on, it's fine. But it stops helping as soon as the work finishes, for those who are having a really bad time.
There are lots of reasons people fall into this trap - as Mouse is saying, the brain chemicals can be out of whack, and there's all sorts of reasons why that might be. It can't be seen, but it's real. As opposed to Lil's trout-pouty people not liking wearing masks etc
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