OT : A psychosocial question

Xrati · #1 August 15th, 2006, 10:03 AM

'Old habits are hard to break.' There's a lot to be said about "old sayings." Our habits, over time, become daily routine. Human nature is always to take the easy way out. It's hard to deal with problems, it's easier to let them go and continue to be plagued by them.

capnq · #2 August 15th, 2006, 05:39 PM

I have read that repeated experiences "optimize" the sections of the brain that deals with them. If you have a lot more negative experiences than positive ones, your brain will get better at processing the negatives.

I often find that my negative memories spring up almost unbidden, but positive memories take more conscious effort to retrieve.

Phoenix-D · #3 August 15th, 2006, 05:45 PM

I suspect we're wired to remenber negative events better. Remebering that "hey, I ate that berry and got sick!" is more 'productive' from a survival standpoint than "Oo, that flower's pretty."

Raapys · #4 August 15th, 2006, 06:59 PM

I think we like bringing forth (old) emotional pain in certain moods and situations. Self-pity can feel very good and comforting, and an experience of pain can push your current problems and situation into the background, thereby making them appear less important or inconsequential.

Atrocities · #5 August 15th, 2006, 08:17 PM

Music and lack of sleep, not to mention drugs, alcohol and some foods might bring about an unexpected upsurge of long forgotten, or well hidden emotional pain.

Xrati · #6 August 16th, 2006, 10:03 AM

Stimulants of any kind, remove you from "control" over your own life. Your decisions are no longer based on any set of principles or experiences. You forfiet control of your life when you use drugs, alcohol or any other mind altering substance. You open the door to everything that you had closed it on...

Renegade 13 · #7 August 18th, 2006, 03:06 PM

Hmmm...up here, we don't get a 21.4% refund rate for aluminum cans.

Kamog · #8 August 18th, 2006, 09:48 PM

Really? A bunch of empty aluminum cans from $1000 worth of beer 1 year ago is worth $1214 today? That's hard to believe. By "earn" $214 do you mean a gain of $214 above the original $1000, or do you mean it is $214 total?

Xrati · #9 August 19th, 2006, 10:10 AM

Aluminum is up over a year ago, but your right, those numbers are inflated as only a mathmatician could do. See my point? There's only one way I know to prove / disprove this. Anyone up to trying it?