First Aid page

This article is meant to be of help for readers who find themselves in emotional turmoil through contents of this Wiki. Below, we will present a number of advises for different situations of distress, cognitive dissonance, depression or even suicidal tendencies.

Feeling failure

One of the more frequently occurring problems that readers of this Wiki may encounter is being overwhelmed by feelings of failure and fear. Some parts of the articles on this Wiki do lead to inescapable conclusions about personal shortcomings in our functioning, that is, for us humans in general.

On the one hand these personal shortcomings are occurring in Homo sapiens so frequently, that they can be considered as a characteristic of our species.

On the other hand the emerging awareness of such shortcomings may come as an unpleasant surprise, demolishing many illusions of personal adequacy and personal well-functioning and well-being. If that happens, the fact that such a personal state is not really different from the average state of Homo sapiens, is often of not much help. The personal feelings of disappointment and failure then tend to rule and to determine the day. The result is feelings of helplessness, sadness, stress and fear, ranging from just a bad mood to suicidal tendencies.

If this happens, we can give a number of considerations that the suffering reader may try to become aware of. These are: 1) Emotional states are by definition (relatively) short lasting. That is how mother nature has structured our emotional system and at that the emotional system of all animals. Emotions are designed to make us move and for that very reason they are also designed to last for short periods only. The advice should therefore be to "sit it out" and to not attach too much value to any emotion in question and in particular not attach too much "permanent value" to it.

2) It is a fallacy to think that our suffering is unique. The articles on this Wiki underline that the condition of Homo sapiens during the last 5,000 to 10,000 years has primarily been a condition of fear, neuroticism and slavery.

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