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[-] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago

Ok, sure, but also negative thinking and giving up hope literally never helped once. It doesn't help in real world ways and it makes your mental state worse. Obviously going around in a state of denial doesn't help and ND people have specific challenges a NT person might not get, but ultimately you gotta cling to a positive mindset to make things better.

[-] SkyeStarfall 7 points 1 week ago

When people keep telling me to basically deny my reality, it makes me feel more shit than anything else. I'd much rather someone empathize and tell me that, yes, things actually do suck. And guess what, that does make me feel better and more sane

If you don't acknowledge reality and stay realistic that things actually are not always that great, then the next time you get knocked down by something, or your challenges make something you aspired to do rail, then you're just gonna fall apart like a house of cards. Especially if you start internalizing that you should be able to do this and that it's your fault you didn't succeed etc

Treating mental health in an individualist way sucks, and sometimes is worse than nothing

[-] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I'm not talking about being in denial. I'm saying that if you want things to not suck, you do have to have the idea that things might not suck somehow later. If you think things are always going to suck then you'll never bother to make things not suck.

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