The toxic world of "Self help"
#Psychology
Although I agree that most self help books, movies, and videos lead to a toxic lifestyle.
His premise that finishing reading, a self-help book leads to a large, dopamine spike is not actually true.
Dopamine Jackpot! Sapolsky on the Science of Pleasure
@corlin Hmm.
I personally get a huge dopamine blast from finishing most books, but I think that might be mostly a "me thing." #NeuroSpicy
Thank you for clarifying this; I wouldn't have known!
@aspecurian @corlin Wow, that was wild. Y'all set off some dominoes, now there's a blog post some 1500 words long in reply. I started writing it, then there was family drama that sent me to my room, then I revised it today to try to shorten it, lol.
Anyway, I looked for an inspirational flower to illustrate it with and settled on a pitcher plant flower because I find carnivorous plants to be inspirational :)
https://tippitiwichet.com/2023/12/31/self-help-books-avoiding-the-toxic-and-finding-healing/
Thanks for sharing that.
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@corlin @aspecurian Actually, looking at my blog now, it's starting to shape into my current goal of something I can stick on my resume when I get the peer recovery support specialist thing, so thank you very much for the inspiration.
@tippitiwichet @corlin Narcissistic abuse creates generational trauma on a level that I don't think we quite have figured out fully yet.
And I get it- some of that abuse is linked to THEIR trauma. But.