And one day, brain did shut up for good and started to follow reason’s evaluations of these kind of situations. And I hope it will happen to those needing this.
For me it was a strange and unintended cocktail of the lowest point of a depression (crisis state and constant dissociation), quitting an addiction and reading a book and declaring it was my new existential guideline. It was a philosophy book. Spinoza’s ethics.
And one day, brain did shut up for good and started to follow reason’s evaluations of these kind of situations. And I hope it will happen to those needing this.
How can one learn this power?
For me it was finding people who cared about me, which gave me the self-esteem to ignore bullies (including the bully-informed “voice” in my head)
For me it was a strange and unintended cocktail of the lowest point of a depression (crisis state and constant dissociation), quitting an addiction and reading a book and declaring it was my new existential guideline. It was a philosophy book. Spinoza’s ethics.
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