‘Embarrassment’: Taylor Greene criticized by call-in listeners as guest on live show

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Nan says:

January 30, 2022 at 1:57 pm

Sorry, Scottie. I know you enjoy them, but for me, most videos are simply time-wasters. Sure, the speakers you like and promote are saying what you believe, but personally, I don’t need the reinforcement.

And you have to admit, they DO take up a lot of a person’s time!

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1. Scotties Playtime says:
  
  January 30, 2022 at 4:00 pm
  
  Hello Nan. I guess they would take up time if you were just watching them doing nothing else. And if a person had to read CC due to a hearing problem that would be the case I agree. I don’t want anyone to feel I am trying to push these videos on them. I am only offering them because I think the information in them is important. I learn a lot by listening to most of them. Some not so much. I think I have told you why I have to have them going when I am at the computer working and why when I am not at the computer I have my earbuds in and I am listening to podcasts. For those that don’t know I suffer from intrusive thoughts really bad. My past has caused damage more than physical, I have emotional & mental damage. If I don’t have constant input to focus my mind on I start to have memories burst into my thoughts. Every bad thing that happened to me, every mistake I made, every embarrassing situation, every misstep or misspoken event crashes past the barriers of normal thoughts and becomes like it is screamed in my head. This happens to me even when I am trying to keep my mind in control, as it can be anything or everything that opens the gates to these shouted thoughts. And it is not just once in a while, they can happen many times one right after the other because anything can trigger them. The only way for me to prevent them or deal with them is to overwhelm my mind with data, with information, forcing it to deal only with what is incoming. Even to walk down the hall from the bedroom to my office I put my earbuds in. The only time I do not have outside stimulation for my brain is when I lay down to sleep. Then I have to force my mind on a story. I create a story in my head and tell it to myself in as much detail as I can create. I go back over it and the characters focusing on getting the details as correct as if I am reading a well written novel. It works.
  
  So that is why I work on one computer screen and listen / watch the other one next to each other. Sometimes if something I am reading is hard to understand or needs extra attention, I will switch the video screen to music or a news show that I don’t have to pay a lot of attention to because it is not something I need to remember but has enough stimulation to help keep my mind from going to the bad memories. Best wishes.
  
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  1. Nan says:
    
    January 30, 2022 at 4:15 pm
    
    There’s absolutely NO DOUBT that your situation is unique. And I probably shouldn’t say anything,
    
    What all of us (me included) need to realize is that each individual is different — and that each of us has our personal battles to overcome. So if videos do it for you … who am I to say otherwise??? I’ll just continue to do what I do … watch some, watch part of some, ignore (most) others. 🙂
    
    Side question — what do you do when you go out? Like to the store or something like that? I know you aren’t currently going and doing due to the virus, but before that? Is being around others help?
    
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    1. Scotties Playtime says:
      
      January 30, 2022 at 4:34 pm
      
      Hello Nan. Please keep saying or asking what you want, I do not mind. When I go out I have my earbuds and my phone is playing the news or podcasts. My phone hooks to the car system. If I go to a doctor’s office or such I take my iPad with its own cell connection. I used to have to take my IPad to restaurants so I could read it while talking with whoever was at the table. But I have not needed to do that for a long time. The conversation is enough for me to focus on. If the intrusive thoughts come, if they are shouted in my mind, I just have to deal with them the best I can. Ron understands the situation and my need to keep distracted and busy. But like you said I am not going out much. Ron wants me to start going with him as I am developing a thing about avoiding leaving the house unless it is for a doctor’s appointment. Being around others can help for a short time, like having conversations while eating. If I am in a store I need my earbuds and phone. If Ron stops to check out prices and read ingredients, I either must keep walking or I take out my phone and start reading the news while listening to a podcast. They have tried me on mood stabilizers and anxiety drugs and other types of mental health drugs. I do not do well on them at all. It is better for me to “self medicate” by over stimulation than use the drugs. What really helps but I am not doing is therapy. When I get really in a bad cycle and you have seen some of those where on my blog I struggle to deal with the mental vortex and the void in my head due to the abuse, then therapy is needed sometimes for a while. But it is always a short-term solution because of money and what is covered with insurance. I have done good for a couple years only with some bad days but not the full on sinking into the place where I cannot get out of. Randy is good at spotting those, and he is great at helping me find handles to climb out of the vortex keeping me from falling into the pit in the void.
      
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