I think being de-sensitized is not so bad once you’ve prepared yourself. Being hyper-sensitized and in a state of panic is what does the real damage.
Well, jeez, Nos. You assertion the partypup is advocating panic is ridiculous. If you feel that way from reading this thread maybe you should re-examine your own life. This is the old “I’m not going to live in fear” thing I hear so frequently.
Like… um… wouldn’t the only reason to actually “live in fear” be if there were something in our lives that was ongoingly frightening and threatening? And… I’m embarrassed to have to write this… if there’s something ongoingly frightening and threatening in our lives, don’t we actually want to know about it, discuss it and maybe, the gods forbid, respond? Isn’t that what fear is for? And this thread for that matter.
This is like watching a slow moving ever morphing category 5 hurricane making landfall that nobody but a few people are watching. Constant updates and honest discussion are needed.
Maybe you are well prepared and that’s great but many people are not. So if you really feel this thread is detrimental to you mental health which you have alluded, go back to your de-sensitized bubble and pretend everything will blow over.
However, when we begin to look closely at the situation in it’s totality, it becomes very clear, very quickly, that de-sensitizing and wishin’ and hopin’ are about to go the way of the Yangtze River Dolphin in terms of effective life strategies. Which is where most Americans dwell.
