Rings around the moon.

I've watched a lot of YouTube videos. Obviously. I feel like I'm drowning, I cling for dear life to anything that promises me a way out of Hell! The question that came to me today (I'm sitting on a wall as I write this, on my way to the shops) is: what could I have known, if I'd used first principals derived from physiology? Answer : everything has to become calm. So far so good.  I was convinced that I could only get to calm through openness and acceptance.  Sounds logical.  I wanted him to make me feel OK. Yep, that's where it starts to go wrong  And when he didn't I became louder and my heart, mind, soul, body and spirit felt drenched in acid. What I could have known is, the advice that talks about openness and acceptance comes from a tradition in which this makes sense. Basically a Christian perspective. Also people may be invested in getting you to watch their videos and a slightly confessional, punitive theory is quite honestly addictive,  Because it feels...

In answer to the question: what makes it better, cause and effect models are seductively reassuring and give simple answers which are rarely useful. People say you can stop stress by doing things that don't cause stress; a cause and effect answer. This assumes your life is like a computer game and you can just close the game and start another one. The next cause and effect answer is; do more of the things that release stress, as if stress is blocked energy that can be soothed or used up. But something is wrong and causing panic, so something has to change or stop; but as stress increases, thinking becomes full of holes, chaotic, fueled by fear, psychic pain and despair, as primitive survival mechanisms close down that tiny, bright button of conscious reasoning known as cognitive control... I see 'mental health' as a continuum, every single person will suffer psychosis if he or she is stressed for long enough and in a way that breaks that person's fundamental assump...