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Sam Wilson's avatar

The deeper I get into my sobriety, the more I'm starting to think of my brain as a thoughts processing unit. Almost like a machine. The thoughts are coming and there is nothing I can do to stop that. My role is to maintain the flow through the machine, ensure there are no kinks in the production line. You have to allocate each of the thoughts into a basket. A lot end up in the "irrelevant" basket. Sometimes a tricky one comes a long and you don't know where to send it, so you set it aside in the "too hard basket" to deal with later on. Eventually you get too many of these thoughts and your left with nothing but the thoughts form the too hard basket. That's where you have to create a new basket. A "ring one of your mates/see a psychologist/write a blog?whatever basket" you need to create to process those thoughts. Not processing them because they're too hard is the essence of bottling things up. That's my thoughts on bottling things anyway.

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Running for Resilience's avatar

100%.

I like to think about a group of fellas moving dirt. There's a big difference between saying "this sucks" whilst continuing to move the dirt, and saying "this sucks" and kicking stones.

We can voice our struggles and move forward despite them, and in my mind, this helps us be 'tougher'.

I was also thinking since Sammy's post, the idea of talking is key from two angles. We need to make it okay to talk, but people who understand this need to talk to set the example, so that when we ask our mates if they're okay, they have an example to follow.

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