Mental Health & Twitter.

Lets cut the crap: many of you on this app are not okay.

It has been a bad 10 months, & while some cracked earlier, some of you are starting to crack down recently & it's time we talk about it.

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First thing's first: it's okay to not be okay.

We have all suffered the lockdowns, economic turmoil & worldwide events in different ways.

Nobody can say that they had a perfect year.

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Before going into why I think many of you are not okay, here are a few things we can physically change to make it better:

- Move more & do exercise
- Proactively get more sun & fresh air
- Unfat yourself

Mind is body, body is mind.

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Now, to the Twitter part. Many of you are so far down a rabbit hole that only does you harm the only reason you aren't coming out of it is due to the sunk-costs fallacy.

You have invested so much time going through a specific road your ego won't let you pause & go back.

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You've followed people for so long you do not want to unfollow or mute.

People you like & have followed for ages who do not have your best interests in mind.

All they do is purposefully make you upset & rile you up.

All they do is groom you. Because u "wanna stay informed"

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You're being groomed into an ideological subset of a subset of a subset.

Niched into polarization & partisanship.

Thrown into an alley with no way out but you won't turn back because of sunk costs.

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The good news is that you always can correct the course with one easy step: logging off or logging on less.

Think about it: you are upset online, & the reason you are upset is because you are online.

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You are mentally fucking yourself over because you're all day online.

Hyper online.

Frying your neurons & dopamine receptors.

Reacting.

Moving less, doing less exercise, never reading other opinions, never distancing yourself from silliness.

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Many of you need a fucking break. I am legitimately starting to get worried about your mental state.

If I, an online stranger, can see this, what about your families? Your loved ones? Your friends?

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If you think you're biologically equipped to deal with such quantity & flow of information you are deluded.

None of us are.

There is no real way to filter through all the info. All we can do is operate following a few heuristics & rules of thumb.

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Humble yourself & come to terms with the fact that you cannot deal with all the information flow

That you are at a dead end

And that continuing further due to sunk costs is costing you your well-being

Log off & move more
And yeah Imma be that guy, log off & spend some time discovering yourself more

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