The sloth just hangs there and refuses to move. What do I do?
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Yes, I keep the plate clean.
I am a mollusk. Bury me in sand and the ocean passes by above me. Let myself slowly graze on small green veggies and fuzzy growths.
You'd do well in @Diplomjodler3's apartment 😁
I'm going to try this.
Me too. I was doing a version of this where I would distance myself from my physical body and view it as separate/other in order to objectively care for nutrition, exercise, etc. needs when unmotivated. But this seems even better because it allows for distancing from the mental needs too. The tiger! Obviously!
Man, the lengths people go to ignore their emotions.
IANAP but it sounds like a coping mechanism for executive dysfunction
IANAP
I Am Not A Person?
Ha ha, executive dysfunction, I forgot about that one a long long time ago.
Real weird utterance
If you've been trained to ignore your emotions (e.g. by gaslighting parental figures), then this is retraining towards a more healthy endpoint.
Yeah you are right, but at some point we all have to reckon with how we feel. Your emotions live with you and you can't keep that distance forever. It should give one pause to think if they are incapable of valuing their own emotional state at the same level as they do someone else's.
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