I'm losing my mind

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Never the leak is not our main concern. I feel like I want to jump out of my own skin. I just— that's the type of thought that runs through my brain when I feel overloaded, overstimulated. When I'm jacked in, keeping up with every little thing that's going on in the world, it's like a pressure—a tension, no, no, no, caving in my skull.

That's good, just keep rubbing your head. I nurse on the input like a newborn. It's the first thing I reach for when I wake, the last thing I look at before I sleep. And yeah, I know it's not good. I'd rather be doing something else, but I can't help but feel that if I let it go, I'll miss something—I'll feel disconnected, alone. But the pressure builds; this extension of myself revs my mind up, and it doesn't stop.

It's like I'm looking for something. One thing that I've started to notice is that whenever I cut myself off from the feed, when I choose to be alone, when I seek stillness, I find it. And this feeling I was running from was what I was searching for. Life is often exactly as simple as we need it to be. There's nothing complicated about a flowing stream, a crackling fire, a cloudy day—unless, of course, we make it that way.

We can always analyze life cerebrally, theorize about it if we need to, but how often do we need to? Are things not also meant to be experienced for what they are, as they are? Because obviously, thinking about things and analyzing reality helps us understand it, but when we live in our heads, it distorts reality. We start looking with our minds instead of our eyes. The mountains don't care what we think of them.

There's a quote by GK Chesterton that's always stuck with me; it goes like this: "It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all." If you're merely a skeptic, you must sooner or later ask yourself the question: Why should anything go right? Even observation and deduction—why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape.

I always thought this quote was pretty funny, and it does a great job of reminding us that what happens inside our brains may not be as sophisticated as we probably think. We tend to celebrate the human mind as the pinnacle of intelligence, yet when we spend too much time in there, we become anxious and isolated. Why is that?

Why is it that the most common piece of advice that you might hear for someone who's socially anxious, needlessly vengeful, or compulsively conspiratorial is "get out of your head"? It's like we all instinctively know that there's a disconnect between reality itself and our interpretation of it. And when we spend too much time untethered from the world as it is, and instead filter our experiences through references and distortions, isn't it obvious that the resulting effect is disorientation?

Is it not obvious that when we plug ourselves into sources that profit off stirring up fear and dread within us, that we would feel more worried and dreadful? I always find it hilarious.

It'll be a beautiful day outside, the most peaceful, divine reality before us, but we'll be on YouTube, or Twitter, or Reddit, and there'll be some world event that usually has nothing to do with us, and we'll go, "That's terrible, man! The world is up!" And then we look out the window at the glorious sun piercing through the clouds over a rolling landscape, and instead of wonder or awe or gratitude, we think, "Would I survive a nuclear winter?"

I'll leave you guys with a quote: Marcus Aurelius said that if you're distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your estimate of it, and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Yeah, I'm feeling really good, guys. Honestly, I feel like there's a one-to-one relationship between my mental health and the amount of time I spend on social media, or just like in front of any kind of screen for any reason whatsoever. It always pays off to just spend time away from my computer, from my phone.

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