[ SECRET POST #3321 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3321 ⌋

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[Charley's Aunt, Some Like it Hot, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Victor Victoria, & Casanova's Big Night]


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[Pokémon Conquest]


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[Kat Blaque, V-Blogger]


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[Bleach]


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Comments

Re: Things you can't believe are considered "normal"

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

I get a lot more sociable (and flirty). When I drink my social anxiety is basically washed away.

Re: Things you can't believe are considered "normal"

[blitzwing]

That's self-medicating with alcohol. That doesn't mean drinking is fun, it means it helps ease a symptom of a mental illness you suffer from.

There's a reason why alcoholism has a high comorbidity with social anxiety.

Re: Things you can't believe are considered "normal"

[(Anonymous)]

That's self-medicating with alcohol. That doesn't mean drinking is fun, it means it helps ease a symptom of a mental illness you suffer from.

The fact is, positive sensations like pleasure and fun cannot necessarily be separated from negative sensations like anxiety and depression.

One philosophical school of thought is that what we experience as pleasure is most commonly the relief from some distressing negative sensation. The reverse also being true: that what we experience as distress is most commonly the loss/absence of some form of pleasure.

"It was bad, but now it's okay."

"It could be bad, but it isn't."

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"It was good, but now it's not."

"It could be good, but it isn't."

I am not saying, and would not argue, that all we experience as pleasure is merely the absence of distress/discomfort, or vice-versa, but the idea that relief from distress is not in fact a form of pleasure strikes me as not just simplistic or naive but almost boggling obtuse.

Re: Things you can't believe are considered "normal"

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry, I feel like my last sentence was a little too much. I was being a bit reactive, because for me (and, I would imagine, for many other anxious/depressed people) it's pretty obvious that the absence of negative feeling is often, in itself, positive feeling.

Re: Things you can't believe are considered "normal"

[blitzwing]

It's alright. I understand what you mean (I have debilitating anxiety as well), but for me I don't think of being anxiety-free as something pleasurable; I think of it as the way I should be all the time. It doesn't make me feel grateful, the few times I'm free of anxiety. It makes me feel angry that most other people feel that way all the time, and I only get to feel that way a few days out of my life, and yet we're expected to function on the same level.

Re: Things you can't believe are considered "normal"

[(Anonymous)]

I drink at most once a month, so it's not like I drink to ease my anxiety all the time. Also there's other things that make drinking fun, like trying out fun drinks with your friends, and making shitty combos. In general as long as not everyone gets totally shit-faced drinking is just fun. In my experience most people are fun drunks.