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Looks like a video about me. I will save it to watch later.

Defeatist who can't quite give up. Man, this one hurts. It's like failing at failing.

The thing that made me most hopeful with this is the notion that “you’re not a man of inaction — you’re a man of a ton of the wrong actions.” because it shifts the narrative from “I can’t even do 1 thing in my day” to “wow look at all the space I could free up for positive things if I stopped taking backwards actions”

I watched this video a month ago and my life changed for two weeks Then i relapsed on bad habits and thoughts, but for my surprise not nearly as bad as before. Now im watching again to keep myself on the track that was working

The trickiest part, I believe, is that my brain has convinced me that I can change any time I want but I will enjoy it for now and I will change next week... Being confident that you can break your habits justify somehow the feeding of the habit... At least that what i notice on myself.

My socially anxious brain tried to stop me from posting a comment again. But f it. Whoever fellow addicts stumbled upon this video and immidiately scrolled down to read comments, please, do yourself a favor and watch the entirety of it ASAP! AND dedicate your whole attention while watching. This is the most eye-opening thing I've seen for a very long time. Needs to be seen by more people. GO DO IT.

It's scary how every time I see a video of this man it feels like he's talking directly to me.

Listening to this makes me realise how good of a movie Inside Out is. Every other emotion is screaming, but sadness has the controller

“Our identity narrows the scope of the actions we are allowed to take.” -Dr. K

I am not even kidding, I watched this episode and almost near the end when I ACTUALLY realised how the brain can trick, my brain LITERALLY went "now since we understood how the brain can trick, let's play a game for now and be aware when it comes". BRO you already came! It's ACTUALLY an insane trickster!!

I remember back in 2017 I had the thought "If I thought myself into this mess, I can think myself out of it again" and that has proven to be a lot of work but also true.

This video hits hard. It’s a wake-up call about how inaction can be just as exhausting as action. Finding our self-worth means pushing through discomfort and taking those small steps forward. Growth doesn’t always have to be grand; sometimes, it’s about making the choice to move, even a little. Let’s stop letting our fears define us!

Genuinely feel so called out by the thumbnail, read me like a damn book

Your channel and especially this video makes me: 1. Feel recognised and makes me realise that I'm not alone 2. Helps me understand what is going on inside my mind to finally- 3. Empower me to take action leading to a better life The accuracy in the way you portray these topics that I was never able to properly put into words is impressive. Thank you for your amazing work.

"You don't have to solve your problems, you just have to be aware" Since watching this video, I reached the resolve to work intently on being aware. Yesterday, on a quick break from playing a video game, I was capable of accessing my emotions in a way that was normally impossible whenever my mind was consumed by a distraction like that. I noticed that I was extremely stressed and anxious while playing that video game. All it did was distract me, while that fire raged in me. Neglecting it only kept it growing uncontrollably. At that moment I finally truly realized the extent of my crippling video game and general technology addiction. I already knew my brain learned to use it to cope with the emotions from growing up in a traumatic environment. Long story, but a key point is that trying to fix the source of the negative emotions was the worst possible mistake I could make. If you're a defenseless child and dad is threatening and humiliating you, acting externally in any way will only make it worse. I learned to focus on regulating them internally instead. If I engage in this behavior, I get distracted from the pain. Wowee, you just developed an addiction. I was clueless about what was going on in my mind for most of my life. I thought existing just sucked that bad because the universe is meaningless and strangely cruel for an entity without intent and that's that. I just saw it the way it was, unlike everyone else who didn't feel like shit as much as I did. Still seems like a miracle I survived as long as I did in that state. It always felt like a matter of "any day now". About 5 years ago, I finally gained the concept that the problem was on the other end of the equation. There wasn't anything I could learn outwards, about the universe, that would answer why the experience of existing for me was the way it was and not some other way. That answer was inwards, a direction I knew so, so much less about. Since then, things have improved dramatically. Therapy and removing myself from the stimulus that made everything the way it was. Unlearning so many of the lessons my brain learned on that warped environment and cluelessly tried to apply to the outside world. Learning to trust, serve and rely on other humans, benefit from the connection. All in ups and downs, haunted to this day with periods where it all seemed like an illusion and I was always doomed to my original fate. But either way, progress feels so slow and unreliable. No answer as to why I seem to have all of the intent, will and environment necessary, yet failed to act on several crucial matters. Still living on autopilot, reacting to my environment most of the time. Then, yesterday, I had the realization in the first paragraph. For how much I knew about it, I never treated my addiction with the respect it deserves. Very slowly, I improved, changed, evolved in so many areas of my life. This habit my addiction was almost frozen in time. Like this video describes, it feels impossible to move forward if you accelerate backwards at breakneck speeds daily, sometimes for weeks at a time. Progress feels so hard and distant because I never have time or mental space to do any of the things required for it. I went unga bunga today, after delaying it this whole month because there was so much I still wanted to do in that game I was playing up until yesterday. It's surreal how much time I actually have in a day. I hope I am on the right track, finally. Thank you for reading this little snippet of my life, I hope it helps you in some way.

I finally tidied up my room, took out the trash, did the dishes, and did the laundry while listening to this. I’d been meaning to do it for a week. I'm going to my MRI tomorrow. Thanks Dr. K.

As always the timing is so fitting that Carl Jung would call it a case of synchronicity 😅

I had a moment where a kind-of switch flipped for me. I can't describe exactly what it was, but at some point I got sick and tired of my own bullshit. I spent years sitting around, wishing and actually deluding myself into thinking that the change would come to me. I let myself become comfortable in my unproductive, unhealthy habits and routines, had convinced myself that nothing I did would change it for the better unless something ELSE happened. At some point I truly realized that I needed saving from myself, and ironically the only person who could do that was me. One step at a time. I had to start intercepting my own thoughts and emotions to essentially 'derail' myself from following the same paths. The cycle of hating myself for doing x or not doing y, only to feed right back into it by letting that make me feel like there was no point, but... I couldn't quite give up. It was either I actually give up, or it's time to change everything. I ended up changing all of my routines, one by one, starting with things like brushing my teeth, cleaning the house, etc. Started off giving myself some lenience, but once I settled in I began to look forward to the things I knew I was GOING to do. Not planning to do, wanting to do... Going to. I've been digging myself out of this hole for a year now and I still have terrible days, but I'm in my 30s with enough baggage to need two vehicles. As long as I'm doing more than sitting in my own pity, though, I count that as a win. All I really HAVE to do is exist, and I did that for years... I just know that I don't want to go back to that.

I can't believe nobody mentioned the book Notes From Underground by Dostoevsky. The protagonist literally describes himself as a "self-loathing man of inaction" and goes in detail about his thoughts and the consequences of having lived like that for like 40 years. Goated book btw