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“Notes on a Nervous Planet” by Matt Haig is the latest book in my summer reading stack. It’s an excellent collections of essays/vignettes about how our world amps our anxiety and panic, and direction/ideas for slowing down and simplifying as a way to treat our selves more gently and enjoy our life more. I read this one on paper, in large chunks, sitting in various local parks. It’s not self-help, but it’s not Not self-help. I enjoyed Haig’s style, and reading just about every page was a pleasure.
Some common sense posits: I feel better when I’m in nature and taking care of my body (the ebike and I are doing great, and it has greatly increased my range of bike travel and park reading destinations). I feel better when I limit my social media (I deleted Facebook and tumblr from my phones, I’m intentionally checking Instagram and twitter less). I feel better when I’m not marinating in the news (and god, that’s a hard balance to strike, when I also feel better when I am informed and can act, AND I know being able to tune out some of the awful in the world is major privilege). I feel better when there is space in my life and my head to slow down, to do just one thing, and enjoy being instead of doing.
This is all, of course, extra interesting to think about during this pandemic summer break, when I feel like I’ve been forced to slow down and the temptation to spend all my time doomscrolling is real. I’m human, I’m working on it, and being reminded that the world I’m living in isn’t the one my brain evolved to live in is so incredibly helpful in managing anxious moments. Highly recommend.
Some common sense posits: I feel better when I’m in nature and taking care of my body (the ebike and I are doing great, and it has greatly increased my range of bike travel and park reading destinations). I feel better when I limit my social media (I deleted Facebook and tumblr from my phones, I’m intentionally checking Instagram and twitter less). I feel better when I’m not marinating in the news (and god, that’s a hard balance to strike, when I also feel better when I am informed and can act, AND I know being able to tune out some of the awful in the world is major privilege). I feel better when there is space in my life and my head to slow down, to do just one thing, and enjoy being instead of doing.
This is all, of course, extra interesting to think about during this pandemic summer break, when I feel like I’ve been forced to slow down and the temptation to spend all my time doomscrolling is real. I’m human, I’m working on it, and being reminded that the world I’m living in isn’t the one my brain evolved to live in is so incredibly helpful in managing anxious moments. Highly recommend.
This book was a weird experience, I found it nice at times but completely awful and truly insulting at times. This was not comforting in the slightest and the bogus knowledge of mental health it’s infuriating.
On at least one occasions, but I am pretty sure it happens more than once the author refers to ADHD as a mental problem which filled me with so much RAGE and threw me off the book completely.
On at least one occasions, but I am pretty sure it happens more than once the author refers to ADHD as a mental problem which filled me with so much RAGE and threw me off the book completely.
Мені сподобалося :) це нон-фікшн, не дуже структурований, але в цілому доносить гарно думки.
Про емоції, наш ресурс, тривогу, вплив оточення etc
Якщо коротко - ви не одні в своїх переживаннях❤️
Про емоції, наш ресурс, тривогу, вплив оточення etc
Якщо коротко - ви не одні в своїх переживаннях❤️
I loved Matt Haig's other book regarding mental illness, Reasons to Stay Alive. This one, however, had me somewhere between bored, exasperated, and more anxious than when I started reading the book. It was very repetitive and borderline preachy when it came to unplugging from social media and the internet.
I think part of the problem I had with it and not really being able to relate to it (despite both myself and Haig being very anxious people) was a generational difference in how I view technology and the speed of innovation vs how Haig views, and ultimately, fears it.
That being said, I still underlined the heck out of this book. Despite not being able to relate to the message as a whole, there were so many lines that resonated with me.
I think part of the problem I had with it and not really being able to relate to it (despite both myself and Haig being very anxious people) was a generational difference in how I view technology and the speed of innovation vs how Haig views, and ultimately, fears it.
That being said, I still underlined the heck out of this book. Despite not being able to relate to the message as a whole, there were so many lines that resonated with me.
I thought it was a thought-provoking read though not in the way I'd anticipated it would be. It triggered several "oh well I'd never thought of it like that" moments and some of those were actually a little anxiety-inducing, but on the whole, there were more positive "ah-ha" than the former. I loved the idea of psychograms and tallying thoughts, experiences, and events on a positive or negative points scale. The higher the psychograms the worse for one's psychological state. Written only in 2019 there are already some things that have become dated (scary how fast that can happen), but those actually add emphasis to what he's talking aobut.
Cash-in follow-up to more successful book on depression.
My book is full of little post-it notes, so clearly I found a number of nuggets of wisdom. Now I am keen to read "Reasons for Staying Alive" next. He's a lovely writer and human being, and the first author I've read who managed to describe a panic attack / raised anxiety levels that made me understand it and sympathise.
Our book club had picked this from a shortlist in the genre of "Self-help: Digital Detox", and I think it missed the mark there. Haig does talk about the detrimental effects of social media, but this is not a self-help book that has you reassess your foul technology habits. The other two books ("How to break up with your phone" and "Digital Minimalism") would have been better suited to our discussion.
Our book club had picked this from a shortlist in the genre of "Self-help: Digital Detox", and I think it missed the mark there. Haig does talk about the detrimental effects of social media, but this is not a self-help book that has you reassess your foul technology habits. The other two books ("How to break up with your phone" and "Digital Minimalism") would have been better suited to our discussion.
‘แต่อะไรๆ ก็ยาก แค่เลือกสวมเสื้อตัวใดในตอนเช้าผมก็ร้องไห้ได้แล้ว การที่ผมเคยรู้สึกอย่างนี้มาก่อนไม่ช่วยอะไร อาการเจ็บคอไม่ได้ทุเลาลงเพียงเพราะคุณเคยเจ็บคอมาก่อน’
เราเชื่อในพลังของ thought เสมอ ถ้าเรียนหรือสนใจศึกษาเกี่ยวกับจิตวิทยาจะเข้าใจว่ากำลังพูดถึงอะไร━การไม่เดินตามขั้นตอนหรือรอบเท้าใคร, มันเป็นความคิดของตัวเราเองที่นำทางตัวเอง━ส่วนตัวไม่ได้เกลียดยาไม่ได้เกลียดหมอ แต่ <มีบางอย่างที่เวลาไม่อาจเยียวยา บางแผลก็บาดลึกเกินไป> โควทจาก J.R.R Tolkien เราเชื่อในพลังการบำบัดมากกว่า (ทั้ง self-help และ therapy ต่างๆ) เราจึงชอบหนังสือที่ผู้เขียนมีประสบการณ์กับมันโดยตรง ไม่ได้ฟังใครมา ไม่ได้เรียนคอร์สสั้นกระชับกินใจเพื่อเอามาโค้ชขายใครต่อ แต่เขาคลุกคลีกับมันอย่างลึกซึ้ง สัมผัสห้วงเหวนั้นด้วยตัวเอง (หมายรวมถึงผู้ใช้หลักวิทยาศาสตร์ในการหาคำตอบแล้วนำมาเผยแพร่ช่วยเหลือคนด้วย)
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