## break me ## Let's define breaking Decades of up and down, I'm still here. Don't worry. It is being caught up in a moment that has already passed. ## Want to avoid breaking? Quick tips - cowork - turn on focus music - get space - get air ## Feeling broken? Remember that - Strong wind. Strong trees. - Steel is forged through fire. - Nothing is unbearable. - Do not feel hurt and you will not be hurt. - Everything is practice. - This is an opportunity for practice. ## What has broken me... - Empathy - My maladaptive response to a silence - Intense emotion from someone who expressed it in a way that implies I have control over over the situation (ex. Children, partner, self, occasional other) - Being around someone with negetive vibes in a shiite mood - Lots of people stimuli (ex. trying to work as folks run around a kitchen) - People who take and take and take (but only if I try to please endlessly) - Endlessly reorganizing information - Perfectionism - Completitionism - Doubt - Blood sugar - [[Time confetti]] - Improving the system instead of just working - Poor breathing - Endless tiddling - [[how to get lost|Getting lost]] - Lots of arbitrary rules (ex. Board games) - Trying to please two or more conflicting parties - Trying to simulate humans - ex. having conversations in my head with others trying to figure out what they will say or do - ex. feeling others assumed - [[I am Em]] - [[mess]] ![[Obsessive Compulsions#Obsessive tendencies I've struggled with]] Saying something breaks me is another of many [[inaccurate words]].