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If I took a pick to your brain you wouldn’t regenerate, and in the same vein there are neural pathways that will never undo themselves. To blanket-state that all mental-wounds can be “fixed” implies that any thought can be manipulated, removed, added, or changed in some way to return to a “before” state, which is absurd. Some wounds cannot be worked through, even with the help of others, and you can only mitigate their impact on your quality of life.
For the record, I never said “well umm yeah but I will do it either way.” That said, claiming that taking time to step away from what is for most people an oversocialized modernity will leave you socially bereft and out of touch is such terrible advice that I can’t tell if you’re doing mustard gas trolling or not. Self-isolation is obviously terrible in a long term sense, but to reflect on what is important to you, what works for you, and to connect with yourself in times of crisis is probably the most important thing you can do. Your values and sense of reality are in crisis, you don’t want to look to what everyone else is doing to define yourself. Collect yourself, evaluate your place in the world, then reach out to people close to you when you have a better idea of what you really want to do. People help keep you grounded, tethering yourself to a baseline is important but defining yourself by it is smothering.
