Ptsd is more likely if you don't have as much social contact + can't express grief. Potentially 'cant express grief publicly'. If entire community subject to tragedy less rates of ptsd - even allievates ptsd symptoms in long term ptsd victims.

During war/after 911, suicide/depression/homicide rates drop. Potentially from being involved in a grand cause. Causes people to speak to each other. Our brains enjoy helping each other.

Much higher rates of mental health problems in human history. These increase with urbanization. Countries might focus too much on tearing themselves apart by every possible ethnic line etc.

Soldiers in ancient times got ptsd at lower rates, potentially due to; death/blood being more common, at camp they were usually safe whereas nowadays - never safe (drones, long range missiles, ied) so modern soldiers always always hypervigilant, killing was considered glorious, crying was allowed amongst men

concussions increase the odds of ptsd developing

35 days of uninterrupted combat, 98% have psychiatric disturbances.

Short term hypervigilance is probably advantageous - easily awaken, worried about event.

A tip from a YouTube video

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Quite difficult to describe how to do it in text, so watch the vid

it uses this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_following_response , i tried reading that article and it was too complex for me

"Psychologists now say that this is a dangerous myth. Some people use this theory as a license to hurt others. Research has found that "letting it rip" with anger actually escalates anger and aggression and does nothing to help you (or the person you're angry with) resolve the situation."

Most conventional approaches don't work, like one word answers, turning away, making small motions toward doors, mindlessly agreeing with them.

The best approach is too not respond in any kind of significant way, including head nods

One is to let it play out a bit, because often times there's some useful thought in there that if you completely ignore will actually cause more anxiety.

Once you're ready to stop the rumination simply note it. Some of my go to notes for rumination are "anxiety" "social anxiety" "guilt" "doubt" "fear" "obsession" "not useful". (I use "not useful" the most, as it seems to have a non-judgmental quality to it).

So the strategy is to either sit down or stand and note the rumination as it pops up or continue what you're doing but take note when it pops up. Sometimes I do both. It works very well.

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You could try that meditation eating, but imo meditation eating is very hard

Lying down meditation is still like impossible for me

A friend sent me:

It's less mental tricks and more fundamental trust. I care about only one opinion of me, and it's not mine - it's God's. That opinion is, in short, "you suck but it's ok, we're working on it". So I aim to do better than yesterday.

It is also worth noting that the only person whose behaviour you can control is yourself, so don't worry about what others choose, instead choose, consciously, to laugh it off, and over time it becomes real.

This is likely contempt - feeling superior

My spouse is talking to me less than usual today vs my spouse is ignoring me

This also sounds like a variation of saying i statements instead of you statements

My criticism: they didnt address that some activities, in their example, browsing Reddit, might come easier than others like trying to exercise every day. Basically they emphasized individual responsibility, the same way as most similar vids. Reddit has had a lot of engineering put into trying to make it more enticing that healthier activities, so it'll be easier to get into those unhealthy activities since you're basically more predisposed.