Understanding Burnout and Depression
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This happened to me when I was trying to grasp everything that Abraxas is and everything it symbolizes and when I came to a realization of what I think Abraxas is after reading something from Carl Jung about Abraxas, it terrified me. Not only because it symbolizes everything happening at once (time in totality) but it's also within me and in all things, including the cosmos. I was terrified of this force within me. I felt as it this force from within me was chasing me to either consume me or to bond with me. I had read of similar experiences from a shamanic perspective.
I should also mention that my cat that I had had for 15 years had just died and it completely crushed me and I was smoking, a lot— A LOT —of weed to help me grieve with his loss (I'm still grieving and it's been 6 months, but I stopped smoking weed), so I'm sure that had everything to do with it and desiring to grasp everything that Abraxas is in one single thought, which can be overwhelming, even impossible.
I would like to leave here what I read from Jung that terrified me that time. It's long though. It might not mean anything to anyone but it was terrifying to me 6 months ago:
"You do not need to seek him. He will find you. He is the god of the cosmos, extremely powerful and fearful. He is the creative drive, he is form and formation, just as much as matter and force, therefore he is above all the light and dark gods. He tears away souls and casts them into procreation. He is the creative and created. He is the god who always renews himself in days, in months, in years, in human life, in ages, in peoples, in the living, in heavenly bodies. He compels, he is unsparing. If you worship him, you increase his power over you. Thereby it becomes unbearable. You will have dreadful trouble getting clear of him… So remember him, do not worship him, but also do not imagine that you can flee him since he is all around you. You must be in the middle of life, surrounded by death on all sides. Stretched out, like one crucified, you hang in him, the fearful, the overpowering."
This is me knowing that I have to go see mom tomorrow.
This has been my M.O. during many chapters of my life, including present. When overwhelmed I shut down the big picture, isolate, get small task oriented without prioritizing, and go emotionally flat.
How do we help someone we love who defaults to this state move through it?
I wish you were part of my mental health team haha. You're awesome.❤
how do I keep from using masturbation as a stress reliever?
Love this, but reality is so much different. You try your best, but still will treated as the lowest contributor to their 'happiness'…
I've never once In my life felt like I am being loved, whatever that fucking means
G2K. I have been dealing and feeling this way going on three months! Extremely fatigued, (I have adhd and always told I’m “too much” and to calm down. So being so ridiculously tired is foreign to me! 😢 can’t remember anything even after just listening or reading on things, I have become introverted anti- social, numb, no desire for anything…adulthood is what we spend our childhood traumas getting over. Cycle of life I guess 🤷🏻♀️
Thabk you for doing the short format videos. They're in no way able to wxplain everything, but they're very helpful for some of us suffering from stunted executive function.
Hypo or hyper, I don't know, but I'm OFTEN overwhelmed and burned out. I do not prefer this haha
Thanks!
My issue is intellectually learning how I work and others work and the systems around me work dosent make things better, def gives me some insights and shows me the propoganda. But given life is just one giant psyop within a contained opposition system within a larger counter insurgency strategy set up to benefit a certain class of people who then dictate everything. And the incentives of the system at various levels and doing the systems thinking. It’s like, I kinda have to learn to deal with this but also see the maybe distortions present even when looking at the truth, cuz who else would be motivated to uncover all this but someone going through stuff. But ugh, that feeling of just like the slow erasure of the future and just one giant system I have to fight that I have to be on point to win at because in a game theoretic situation like the culture we have you can’t truly have allies. More frenemies.
Whilst this identifies and explains it does not offer advice.
I subbed you. They was very articulate. 😉💯
True mam
HOW DO I GET OUT OF THIS STATE
I will be cautious of angry verbal adults in public.
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How to overcome?
Im wore out ..but still going
i love your videos i’m so thankful i found you to help better understand myself and what i can seek help in, thank you a million. you’ve inspired me to become a therapist of my own once i get over my own issues ofc
Wow. Yikes. Truth
Finding care that was specialized changed the game for me, I feel so much more understood having someone who specializes in LGBT, Neurodivergent and minority religions.