{"id":6505,"date":"2020-03-01T14:26:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T13:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=6505"},"modified":"2020-03-01T14:26:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T13:26:51","slug":"mind-palace-without-the-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/mind-palace-without-the-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind palace, without the map"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A year or so ago I had a few sessions with a cognitive therapy person which didn’t amount to much \u2013 cbt seems mostly about breaking patterns and helping people out that can’t manage their day-to-day life, and whatever my problems are, it wasn’t a good fit. I’m still on SSRI:s but am hoping to drop those as soon as I get some breathing room, but I’ve also started meeting with a honest-to-goodness lie-on-a-couch therapist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s an exciting process and offers a challange to my recursive introspection. His axiom is that most problems stem from conflicts, and identifying those conflicts \u2013 be they internal or external \u2013 can allow me to get a better understanding of myself as well as be used as a tool to avoid the traps of overthinking and negative spiraling. In a sense, everything is borne of a choice at some point, even if it doesn’t feell like it in a moment of anxiety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t have any principled objection to medicating my problems away \u2013 the psylocybin\/ketamin experiments with depressed persons seem promising \u2013 but if I can learn to manage my mind better using only my own body, I’ll be more resilient regarless of what other tools I’ll have at my disposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A year or so ago I had a few sessions with a cognitive therapy person which didn’t amount to much \u2013 cbt seems mostly about breaking patterns and helping people out that can’t manage their day-to-day life, and whatever my problems are, it wasn’t a good fit. I’m still on SSRI:s but am hoping to … Continue reading Mind palace, without the map<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6513,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6505\/revisions\/6513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}