#usually because its complex and intertwined with about a half million other issues

[infinityactual]

deleted the last reblog bc it.....why are people like this. If putting the names of ur fave into To kill a Mockingbird makes it easier to engage in? like wtf there is literally nothing wrong with that.

And people who insist that fandom is dumber and stupider than it was "when they were younger" and how nobody engages in analysis and critical thinking anymore sound like older folks who just haven't kept up with the times for one, and also well YEAH FUCKING DUH. We in general are being bombarded with so much more bullshit than when I was a teen, and while that's partly due to the internet making this info readily available, it still means that kids in their teens and twenties are quickly (or already have) become anxiety and guilt-ridden to hell. They NEED a way to turn off their brains here and there and make the world feel a little easier to handle, a little less bad.

Apparently I need a cut bc this became long and rambly.

My ONLY beef with fandom and people in general has always been the proclivity for people and groups to be jerks for no reason at all. This is fiction we're talking about. Not history. You are being a snob over things that don't exist, congratulations you're completely irrelevant. With the exceptions of bigotry, racism and the other Big Obvious (for most) Societal No's, there is literally no reason to get your panties in a bunch over someone not sharing the same headcanons you do. FUCK I can think of at least four moots who have headcanons for Lasky that I dislike INTENSELY, but you know fucking what? I simply do not engage with that facet of their content if it bothers me badly enough. The most you will ever hear me say about like...someone saying Lasky drinks whiskey is 'Eh, I personally can't get behind that idea, but you can go ham with it.'

Aside from that like. Do what you fucking want. Write the raunchiest kinkiest fanfic you can. Turn Of Mice And Men into a goddamn She-Ra fanfic if it makes it easier for you to read. Changing the names of the characters doesn't change the actual narrative.

The whole chrome 'plug your faves names into someone else's fic' add on could be an issue for some fanfic authors, but I doubt it would be a unanimously disliked thing and it certainly doesn't indicate any moral failing or intellectual deficit of anyone who uses it...this falls in my 'check with the fanfic author as a courtesy first and respect their wishes' category. fyi if you do/want to use that for my fic? Go for it.

People need a fucking break from the trash fire that is reality. What the fuck don't some people get about this. Your entire waking existence doesn't have to revolve around critical thinking or constant improvement or analyzing every stupid little thing about something.

Now is critical thinking something people should try to cultivate? yes. It's a very good skill that can save you a lot of time and energy, and I highly recommend that everyone develop critical thinking skills. But I also think people should cultivate patience, understanding, empathy and the ability to pick their battles. I also think that people deserve spaces where they can turn all that off and go no thoughts head empty while they read some bullshit fic and try to forget that the world is quite literally burning down around them for a few hours. It isnt always solely a matter of knowing HOW to think critically, but also knowing WHEN its needed and when to just let your brain be lazy. If you focus on critical thinking and analyzing media and games n shit it can become a problem in its own right. People will start reading the stupidest shit into the most mundane of things and lose the ability to actually disengage their damn braincells and just enjoy shit.

God I could rant for ten more years about this...

tl;dr constantly analyzing all media you consume can in fact be a bad thing and everyone deserves to turn off their brain sometimes as long as they aren't actively causing harm to a person or group or perpetuating harmful ideas.

[jonigirard3]

how to fall asleep fast and sleep through the night?

how to fall asleep fast and sleep through the night?

Translator: Tijana Mihajlović Reviewer: Denise RQ The early part of my career as a clinical psychologist was spent in addiction research and treatment, and now I treat sleep. So when I reflect on my path, I feel as if I can legitimately say that I went from helping people become conscious to helping people become unconscious. (Laughter) I love sleep treatment. I think that sleep is so fascinating and it's exquisitely complex. For people navigating that sleep treatment world, though, trying to figure out what to do can be very daunting. I was even surprised to find out that some of the most effective treatments for insomnia were over 20 years old. When I shared this with one of my clients, his response caught me off-guard. He said, "Why is it then that you are my last stop when you should have been my first stop?" The night of sleeplessness here and there is actually normal. Losing sleep over a broken heart - normal. Losing sleep because your mind pops awake with one more idea to add it to your big presentation tomorrow - normal. But hopefully, we also know how great it feels to have a really good night of sleep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNj1Y11t_x8 Because I know how great it is to have a good night of sleep, I am always struck with wonder that sleep only recently has joined the conversation when you talk about health and overall longevity. People even sometimes ask me, "Isn't there some way I can hack into my sleep, to somehow squeeze it down significantly, so that I can just maybe go straight into, you know, the good stages, where the benefits are?" Fair enough. Good question. The answer is no. (Laughter) It turns out a great deal of housekeeping is taking place while we sleep. And sleep is much more complex than just a lack of consciousness. When you get into bed, and you pull up the covers, and you rest your head on the pillow, with your exhale of all the concerns for the day, as you close your eyes, sleep begins to unfold in a series of stages that increase in depths as the night goes on. All those stages work together to orchestrate all the processes that are needed to derive all the benefits of sleep. For example, we know that sleep is incredibly important for immune functioning. Get a lot of consistent sleep - you're more likely to resist infection. If you get sleep while you're sick, you're more likely to recover. Recent evidence suggest that your brain even has its own dedicated waste removal system, the glymphatic system, and this is the system that works primarily while we're asleep to remove the gunk out of our brains that seem to contribute to diseases such as dementia. So really there is no consensus about why we sleep. We don't really know why we spend the third of our life doing it, but one thing that I can tell you is just as the three trimesters of pregnancy can't be whittled down to a convenient three months, it seems like sleep and the benefits of it also have an optimum period of gestation, which appears to be about 7-9 hours. So, while some people are looking to get rid of sleep, there are other people that would do anything to get more of it. To them, sleep is not consistently rejuvenating, satisfying, it doesn't leave them ready to go. This is insomnia. Now, that word doesn't always resonate with people. If you ask them, they're saying, "No, no, I don't have insomnia. I just don't sleep. I don't look like this guy, so how bad off can I be?" It turns out a diagnosis of insomnia doesn't depend on how bleary-eyed you are, or even on the number of hours of sleep that you get. If you consistently don't feel as if your sleep is rejuvenating, or if more days that not you feel as if you're having a hard time falling asleep, staying asleep, or you're unintentionally waking up too early, maybe you should get it checked out. And don't fall into the trap of thinking that whatever is happening with you, that it makes sense that you have some chronic sleep loss. Until recently, sleep problems that occurred in the context of major life stress, or medical or psychiatric conditions was largely ignored. It was thought that if some sort of medical issue would be resolved, that eventually sleep would fall into place. That is clearly not what happens. Sometimes, even when the primary issue is resolved, insomnia persists. And the reason for that is that insomnia and a lot of other symptoms are mutually exacerbating. What that means is that they're intertwined. Take, for example, that half of the 18 million Americans who have major depressive disorder, also have insomnia. If you intervene at the level of depression, you might get symptom relief, and yet, the insomnia can persist. But the evidence linking the relationship between insomnia and depression suggest that if you intervene on the level of sleep, that people can get relief from those symptoms of depression, and you can even prevent further episodes. Insomnia is not just a symptom; insomnia is a disorder. And when it occurs, it should be assessed and treated as the first-line problem. Now, when people do seek treatment, they usually receive a medication, and medications are great. If you have a stressful meeting with your boss tomorrow, pop a pill; you're going to sleep tonight. But oftentimes, people don't want to have to rely on anything, especially over the long term, in order to get a good night of sleep. I have good news, and that is that healthy sleep is largely shaped by the things that we do: by our choices, by our behaviors. So in this way, the best sleep medicine is our behavior, behavioral medicine. Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, which is a really long name for a treatment, let's just call it CBTI, has a substantial evidenced-base for the treatment of insomnia. And we know that not only does it work for most people, there are several different patient populations that can derive benefit: cancer survivors, people with PTSD, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, major depression. Here, there is consensus: CBTI should be the first line of treatment when it comes to insomnia. And why is that? Why would something like therapy cure something that feels like a very physiological need? Well, in order to understand why CBTI works, you need to know a little bit about why acute insomnia becomes chronic, and has a lot to do with our behaviors. The seemingly benign decisions we make in order to try to fix insomnia, actually perpetuate it. I blame our instincts. Let me give you an example. If you sustain an injury, you automatically apply pressure to any sort of bleeding wound. In this case, your instincts are helpful. But let's say you're going on a hike, and it's a beautiful Colorado day, and you run into a bear. Every cell in your body mobilizes to react to your instinct to turn around and run. Your instincts are wrong. The bear will chase you, the bear will outrun you, the bear will catch you, and then… Well, it turns out the way your instincts should have told you to do is to make yourself look bigger, to stand tall, to puff out your chest, and talk to it on a loud voice, and in the very unlikely scenario where the bear actually attacks you, what you're supposed to do is pick up a stick and fight back. So… (Laughter) So this is the same thing that happens with sleep loss: we compensate for sleep loss because it tends to make sense to us. So what do we do? We doze off on the couch, we go to bed early, we sleep in late, we have an irregular sleep schedule, we become really preoccupied with whether or not we'll be able to sleep, whether we've lost the ability to sleep, and this leads to a lot of hyper arousal, which is where CBTI comes in. So there are several different components of CBTI that are tailored to each individual person, but in brief, what happens with sleep restriction is it takes someone's existing sleep debt and grows it a little bit in order to consolidate sleep, so that people fall asleep faster, and they're less likely to wake up. Stimulus control likes to strengthen the relationship between bed being a place for sleep, rather than other engaging activities, such as checking your email, plotting revenge, worrying, stress, or whatever else it might be. (Laughter) Cognitive therapy helps people identify strategies that might be able to help them distance themselves from a mind that doesn't seem to be able to turn off. How do they stuck up? How do medications and cognitive behavioral therapy compare with one another? Well, the evidence is in, and the results are clear. In the short run, CBTI and medications are equivalent, but in the long run, CBTI is the clear winner. The problem with behavioral therapies is not a lack of evidence that they work; it is a lack of awareness that they exist. You could probably rattle off the names of several different sleep medications, but how many commercials have you seen for CBTI? If you have insomnia, take heart. The odds are squarely in your favor. Your sleep can get better. You can wake up rejuvenated, with mental clarity, who knows, maybe even enough energy to stand up to a bear. (Laughter) But here, I think that what I'll do is I will heed the advice of a great mind, who says that it's more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of a disease a person has. So, I know sleep science, but I don't know you. We just met. I don't know you or the relevant medical history that would have helped me design a treatment to help you cure your insomnia, but I can leave you with this: eat healthy, exercise, take care of your body, and do all that you can do to cap it all off with a night of great sleep. Thank you. (Applause) the early part of my career as a clinical psychologist was spent in addiction research treatment and now I treat sleep so when I reflect on my path I feel as if I can legitimately say that I went from helping people become conscious to helping people become unconscious I love sleep treatment I think that sleep is so fascinating and it's exquisitely complex for people navigating the sleep treatment world though trying to figure out what to do can be very daunting I was even surprised to find out that some of the most effective treatments for insomnia were over 20 years old. when I shared this with one of my clients his response caught me off guard he said why is it then that you are my last stop when you should have been my first stop the night of sleeplessness here and there is actually normal losing sleep over a broken heart normal losing sleep because your mind pops awake with one more idea to add your to your big presentation tomorrow normal but hopefully we also know how great it feels to have a really good night of sleep and because I know how great it is to have a good night of sleep I always am struck and with wonder that sleep only recently has joined the conversation when you talk about health and overall longevity people even sometimes ask me isn't there some way I can hack into my sleep to somehow squeeze it down significantly so that I can just maybe go straight into you know the good stages where the benefits are fair enough good question the answer is No so it turns out a great deal of housekeeping is taking place while we sleep and sleep is much more complex than just a lack of consciousness when you get into bed and you pull up the covers and you rest your head on the pillow with your exhale of all the concerns for the day as you close your eyes sleep begins to unfold in a series of stages that increase in depth as the night goes on and all those stages work together to orchestrate all the processes that are needed to derive all the benefits of sleep for example we know that sleep is incredibly important for immune functioning get a lot of consistent sleep you're more likely to resist infection if you get sleep while you're sick you're more likely to recover recent evidence suggests that your brain even has its own dedicated waste removal system the glymphatic system and this is the system that works primarily while we're asleep to remove the gunk out of our brains that seem to contribute to diseases such as dementia so really there is no consensus about why we sleep we don't really know why we spend a third of our life doing it but one thing that I can tell you is just as the three trimesters of pregnancy can be whittled down to a convenient three months it seems like sleep and the benefits of it also have an optimum period of gestation which appears to be about seven to nine hours so while some people are looking to get rid of sleep there are other people that other people that would do anything to get more of it to them sleep is not consistently rejuvenating satisfying it doesn't leave them ready to go this is insomnia now that word doesn't always resonate with people if you ask them they say nah no I don't even saamiya I just don't sleep I don't look like this guy so how bad off can I be it turns out a diagnosis of insomnia doesn't depend on how bleary-eyed you are or even on the number of hours of sleep that you get if you consistently don't feel as if your sleep is rejuvenating or if more days than not you feel as if you're having a hard time falling asleep staying asleep or you're unintentionally waking up too early maybe you should get it checked out and don't fall into the trap of thinking that whatever is happening with you that it makes sense that you have some chronic sleep loss until recently sleep problems that occurred in the context of major life stress or medical or psychiatric conditions was largely ignored it was thought that if some sort of medical issue were resolved that eventually sleep would fall into place that is clearly not what happens sometimes even when the primary issue is resolved insomnia persists and the reason for that is that insomnia and a lot of other symptoms are mutually exacerbating and what that means is that they're intertwined take for example that half of the 18 million Americans who have major depressive disorder also have insomnia if you intervene at the level of depression you might get symptom relief and yet the insomnia can persist but the evidence linking the relationship between insomnia and depression suggests that if you intervene on the level of sleep that people can get relief from those symptoms of depression and you can even prevent further episodes insomnia is not just a symptom insomnia is a disorder and when it occurs it should be assessed and treated as a first-line problem now when people do seek treatment they usually receive a medication and medications are great if you have a stressful meeting with your boss tomorrow pop a pill you're going to sleep tonight but oftentimes people don't want to have to rely on anything especially over the long term in order to get a good night of sleep I have good news and that is that healthy sleep is largely shaped by the things that we do by our choices by our behaviors so in this way the best sleep medicine is our behavior behavioral medicine cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia which is a really long name for a treatment so let's just call it CBT It has a substantial evidence base for the treatment of insomnia and we know that not only does it work for most people there are several different patient populations that can derive benefit cancer survivors people with PTSD chronic pain fibromyalgia major depression here there is consensus CBT I should be the first line of treatment when it comes to insomnia now why is that why would something like therapy cure something that feels like a very physiological need well in order to understand why CBT I works you need to know a little bit about why acute insomnia becomes chronic and has a lot to do with our behaviors the seemingly benign decisions we make in order to try to fix insomnia actually perpetuate it I blame our instincts let me give you an example if you sustained an injury you automatically apply pressure to any sort of bleeding wound in this case your instincts are helpful but let's say you're going on a hike and it's a beautiful Colorado day and you run into a bear every cell in your body mobilizes to react to your instinct to turn around and run your instincts are wrong the bear will chase you the bear will outrun you the bear will catch you and then well it turns out that what your instincts should have told you to do is to make yourself look bigger to stand tall to puff out your chest and talk to on a loud voice and in the very unlikely scenario where the bear actually attacks you what you're supposed to do is pick up a stick and fight back so so this is the same thing that happens with sleep loss we compensate for sleep loss because it tends to make sense it makes sense us so what do we do we does off on the couch we go to bed early we sleep in late we have an irregular sleep schedule we become really preoccupied with whether or not we'll be able to sleep whether we've lost the ability to sleep and this leads to a lot of hyper arousal which is where cbt-i comes in so there are several different components of cbt-i that are tailored to each individual person but in brief what happens with sleep restriction is it takes someone's existing sleep debt and grows it a little bit in order to consolidate sleep so that people fall asleep faster and they're less likely to wake up stimulus control likes to strengthen the relationship between bed being a place for sleep rather than other engaging activities such as checking your email plotting revenge worrying stress or whatever else it might be cognitive therapy helps people identify strategies that might be able to help them distance themselves from a mind that doesn't seem to be able to to turn off how do they stack up how do medications and cognitive behavioral therapy and compare with one another well the evidence is in and the results are clear in the short run CBT eye and medications are equivalent but in the long run CBT eye is the clear winner the problem with behavioral therapies is not a lack of evidence that they work it is a lack of awareness that they exist you could probably rattle off the names of several different sleep medications but how many commercials have you seen for CBT i if you have insomnia take heart the odds are squarely in your favor your sleep can get better you can wake up rejuvenated with mental clarity who knows maybe even enough energy to stand up to a bear but here I think that what I'll do is I will heed the advice of a great mind who says it's more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of a disease a person has so I know sleep science but I don't know you we just met I don't know you or the relevant medical history that wouldn't it help me design a treatment to help you cure in your insomnia but I can leave you with this eat healthy exercise take care of your body and do all that you can do to cap it all off with a night of great sleep thank you you Source : Youtube

https://www.yourvibration.com/sleep/89 Sleep Rescue, Sleep Remedy, Sleep Aid