tags: learned helplessness
2003
May
- 2003 May 18
- Fidgety
I know what is going to happen, but I guarantee I’m still going to feel like crap.
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July
- 2003 Jul 15
- Flight of Ideas (Episode II): I Am Running Out of Titles
I really, really need to start writing things down. I had some pretty deep and interesting thoughts this afternoon, but now they are all gone. Oh, but there is a little teaser about learned helplessness.
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2006
June
- 2006 Jun 11
- meditation on inadequacy
I find it interesting that my mind is unable to remodel the emotional trajectory of my life through at least the last 10-15 years. I remember being someone who was a perfectionist, inordinably hard on myself, always thinking that I was a failure, that I wasn’t good enough, that I wasn’t smart enough, that I’d never succeed. I recognize that a lot of this was in response to a mother who was excruciatingly demanding, who couldn’t stand things being done in any other way than her own, and who would just do things for me instead letting me do things my own way.
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2015
December
- 2015 Dec 2
- Mass Shootings
Up to three dudes have decided to shoot up a facility that helps the developmentally disability.
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