You can, it's called therapy.
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2023
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Which, like every mental health treatment, only works for a subset of people.
Most of my friends who have tried therapy just leave after a session or two and claim their problems have gone away, dodge further sessions and never actually gave it a real try. Then a week later they will go through the same issues again. It sucks to see them this way.. I've tried to help them to go to therapy consistently but very few actually do.
You can't solve 20 years worth of emotional issues in a few sessions.. it takes years of therapy to actually get better. Not to mention societal stigma against going to therapy makes it even harder.
Years of therapy cost a LOT of money though, not everyone can afford that.
As the pizza hoe mentioned, it's very country dependent. Where I live, therapists are, like other medical specialists, paid from taxes, so free at the point of use (not all of them, they need some licenses etc.). Or you can pay for them out of pocket if you want.
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Patch Notes v2.0:
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Fixed a bug where you would freak out for no reason. Anxiety levels now reduced by 50% - enjoy a smoother, calmer and more stable experience!
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Upgraded memory capacity by 50%. Say goodbye to forgetting where you put your keys or that one relative who changed your diaper once. You're welcome!
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Removed those pesky 'Remember that time you embarrassed yourself in front of everyone?' pop ups. Time to move on, folks! No more cringe-filled flashbacks from now on.
Stay tuned for more updates on the Human OS and also a huge thanks to our contributors.
Damn it, when are they going to add the 'sex drive is now equal to partner's' feature?!
Bug fix: your tongue and cheeks no longer get bit by your own teeth while eating
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You could always use monkey-patching
Drugs, I'm talking about drugs. 🫠
What drugs? Asking for a friend.
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-bug fix: enable vitamin c generation ability -bug fix: enable tooth enamel regeneration
That's called drugs.
get your vaccines 🤣
They are the updates for your antivirus system.
patch out the bug that causes eyelashes to have a chance to fall into the eye
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-Empathy attribute improved by 50% -bug fix: some players' Empathy attribute was below baseline; these players have had their Empathy attribute reset to baseline.
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Oh yeah! finally fixed that anxie- Segmentation fault (core dumped)
- bug fix: you can now go to a room without forgetting the reason you went there
- bug fix: you can now produce your own vitamin C again
No you don't. You want to learn how to properly run your hardware.
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anxiety serves a purpose, forces your fight or flight response, develops survival instinct
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memory is not meant to be heidetic as not everything is vital information; you want to remember what you had for lunch when you were 3 years old, on a tuesday, mid january?
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failures are more important than successes; failure teaches you what does not work.
Run your hardware better. Have some therapy, try to sleep more/better and go for a daily walk.
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- adjusted responsibility level by 1000%
Cursed Monkey Paw:
Wish Granted. You get regular firmware updates, just like HP printers do.
The entire field of medicine : Am I a joke to you?
Just open source the code. Let me hack on it.
I'm afraid we lost the source code long ago, we've just been stochastically binary patching for a few billion years. At least there's a disassembler: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/genome/guide/human/
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Isn't this technically a vaccine? I suppose that's more like Avast for your body
It's more of a malware definitions update for the antivirus your body already ships with.
"already ships with" 💀
No thanks, seen too many bad updates to want to let myself get bricked by a bad update.
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-new bug: Due to forgetting of past failure, there is now reoccurring failures.
Humans have them. But they are like Linux drivers and upgrades. You have to look for them as invest a lot of. Tike to actually improve.
Fixed a bug where the human would sometimes procrastinate too much, saying "It's a problem of my future self".
Update later? [Y]
Eh, I'll put it on the back log
This is the meditation update that you're looking for
Sure, but you always download the latest bugs.
-known issue: audio skips every 10s
Reading books, studying, learning new things, is our way to update our firmware to make new things, or give us new tools to fight anxiety or depression.
Also, to improve your math skills, you have to do maths often, and the brain will get better at it.
The brain is like a muscle that you can train to become stronger at things that hurt you or better at things that you need.
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Can I get a perceived attractiveness buff plz
Also, combined sex and waste organs; awful idea.
Human babies need a buff, they're functionally useless for far too long. Other mammals can stand immediately.
Way too many incompatible preference traits. Cheese being delicious but also requiring to enslave another being for manufacturing, with a 50/50 chance it makes your asshole explode. Way too chaotic.
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