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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https://t.co/V6Oq76HeU8
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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https://t.co/DEia5ZtB26
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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https://t.co/nNTkmLxFXh
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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Some thoughts on this: Firstly, it might be personal preference, but I am not keen on this kind of campaign as I feel like it trivialises cancer. Sometimes the serious message gets lost because people are sharing pics of cats or whatever and the important context is gone.


More importantly, the statistic being used in the campaign is misleading. It says 57% of women put off cervical screening if they can't get waxed. But on further investigation, that's not accurate.

The page here goes on to say "57% of women who regularly have their pubic hair professionally removed would put off attending their cervical screening appointment if they hadn’t been able to visit a beauty salon."

So the 57% represents a concern not across the whole population of women, but only those who regularly get waxed. So how big of an issue is this across the whole population? And what else is stopping people getting smears?

I think campaigns for cancer screening are really tricky because there is so much nuance that often doesn't fit into a catchy headline or hashtag. It's certainly not easy and is part of a bigger conversation.

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From today, we will memorize the names of 27 Nakshatras in Vedic Jyotish to never forget in life.

I will write 4 names. Repeat them in SAME sequence twice in morning, noon, evening. Each day, revise new names + recall all previously learnt names.

Pls RT if you are in.

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Today's Nakshatras are:-

1. Ashwini - अश्विनी

2. Bharani - भरणी

3. Krittika - कृत्तिका

4. Rohini - रोहिणी

Ashwini - अश्विनी is the FIRST Nakshatra.

Repeat these names TWICE now, tomorrow morning, noon and evening. Like this tweet if you have revised 8 times as told.

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Today's Nakshatras are:-

5. Mrigashira - मृगशिरा

6. Ardra - आर्द्रा

7. Punarvasu - पुनर्वसु

8. Pushya - पुष्य

First recall previously learnt Nakshatras twice. Then recite these TWICE now, tomorrow morning, noon & evening in SAME order. Like this tweet only after doing so.

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Today's Nakshatras are:-

9. Ashlesha - अश्लेषा

10. Magha - मघा

11. Purvaphalguni - पूर्वाफाल्गुनी

12. Uttaraphalguni - उत्तराफाल्गुनी

Purva means that comes before (P se Purva, P se pehele), and Uttara comes later.

Read next tweet too.

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Purva, Uttara prefixes come in other Nakshatras too. Purva= pehele wala. Remember.

First recall previously learnt 8 Nakshatras twice. Then recite those in Tweet #4 TWICE now, tomorrow morning, noon & evening in SAME order. Like this tweet if you have read Tweets #4 & 5, both.