A speaker describes the void, a dissociative state triggered by overthinking and anxiety that disconnects you from work, relationships, and time itself. They share how they spent fifteen years suppressing a traumatic memory until a mysterious diagnosis of knee and hip instability at 23 forced them to dig it back up.
All right, we're here. We're gonna talk about it. We're gonna talk about the rabbit holes in your mind when you start to over-compartmentalize and you overthink and you project onto others and you get into this fluttery state of immobilization. You know where that place is taking you. It is taking you into the void. The void. And I'm very familiar with the void. Why? Because I decided a few years back that I was going to do some memory mining so that I could uncover a 15-year suppressed traumatic memory. And I wanted to do this because I knew something was I knew something had gone wrong. I had a diagnosis at 23 years old. My knees and my hips were buckling when I'd be walking up and down stairs. I'm a healthy young adult, a soccer player, a rock climber. It made no sense. So let's talk about the void. The void is this place. I want you to look at this like Let me get rid of this. I want you to look at the void like here you are, stick figure you, walking along your life trajectory. This is you doing all the things. You go to school, you get a job, you have good friendships and relationships, all the things that are what Keeping you grounded. All those things are grounded. Why? Because they connect you to time. Time, this ever-ticking that keeps going and going and going. Okay, so we got you, we got the things that keep you grounded, and those things keep you grounded. Why? Because they're connected to time. Now, when it comes to that overwhelm, that fluttery anxiety, and everything else that comes up, what happens? Here's your brain. Let's use a new color. What's a good color for the brain? Blue? Maybe not blue. Red? That's too gory. Let's do blue. Here's your brain. When you start to overthink, when you get anxiety, when you start to dissociate, What happens to your mind? Your mind starts to float up. It starts to float up because you're thinking all these thoughts, right? What are the thoughts you're thinking? Probably not good enough.
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