As with many of your insights, I really like the project of trying to identify and conceptualize sequential bottlenecks, even if the specific sequence you’ve identified strikes me as too idiosyncratic to generalize widely :)
Chris, for some reason it's really hard to remember your articles for me. I've seen it also happen with something truly novel and complex during first period of exposure. Feels like it gets "pushed out" of me. What do you think about it? Does it make sense? I think it's not about your way of writing, but something deeper, perhaps
Not OP, but I can relate! What I sometimes find helpful is a change of scenery: read on a laptop instead of on your phone, at a desk instead of your bed, outside instead of inside. The issue could also be the state of your body: trying resting, caffeinating, exercising, eating, writing, or meditating before reading. We process information differently depending on our circumstances, so try changing yours!
I have OCD and it's interesting to think of how this applies to OCD-related anxiety. One example, #4 -- "You perceive risks in resolving your anxiety and haven’t committed to the work yet" -- the risk is that, if you stop doing compulsions, you will literally die (in your mind)! Huge bottleneck to overcome. I'll think of how the other ones apply to OCD. Thanks for writing!
I don’t have OCD, but I do struggle with mental health. What I’ve been trying recently is to imagine that my destructive thoughts and behaviors are coming not from “me” but some antagonistic entity in my mind, like a worm, bug, etc. The idea is to create some separation between you and your thoughts, which then implies that the “real you” might have something different to bring to the table (e.g. that you don’t need to follow your compulsions to survive).
Some resonances here with Prochaska’s (much broader-in-scope) “stages of change” model, in case you haven’t come across it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transtheoretical_model
As with many of your insights, I really like the project of trying to identify and conceptualize sequential bottlenecks, even if the specific sequence you’ve identified strikes me as too idiosyncratic to generalize widely :)
I though I was at the Self-rejection or Triggers bottleneck but I was at Denial 😭😭😭😭
What if I tell you i couldn't identify my first bottleneck? But I'm sure it's between 3-7 somewhere
Chris, for some reason it's really hard to remember your articles for me. I've seen it also happen with something truly novel and complex during first period of exposure. Feels like it gets "pushed out" of me. What do you think about it? Does it make sense? I think it's not about your way of writing, but something deeper, perhaps
Not OP, but I can relate! What I sometimes find helpful is a change of scenery: read on a laptop instead of on your phone, at a desk instead of your bed, outside instead of inside. The issue could also be the state of your body: trying resting, caffeinating, exercising, eating, writing, or meditating before reading. We process information differently depending on our circumstances, so try changing yours!
I have OCD and it's interesting to think of how this applies to OCD-related anxiety. One example, #4 -- "You perceive risks in resolving your anxiety and haven’t committed to the work yet" -- the risk is that, if you stop doing compulsions, you will literally die (in your mind)! Huge bottleneck to overcome. I'll think of how the other ones apply to OCD. Thanks for writing!
I don’t have OCD, but I do struggle with mental health. What I’ve been trying recently is to imagine that my destructive thoughts and behaviors are coming not from “me” but some antagonistic entity in my mind, like a worm, bug, etc. The idea is to create some separation between you and your thoughts, which then implies that the “real you” might have something different to bring to the table (e.g. that you don’t need to follow your compulsions to survive).