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Speaker 2: This is the Flex and Frooms catch up podcast. Am
Speaker 2: I sad? Or do I just need to leave the house?
Speaker 2: And other questions will answer today on the Flex and
Speaker 2: Rooms Show. Listen up. I know what you're thinking. You're
Speaker 2: depressed and you need to be redacted redacted. Sometimes it's
Speaker 2: not that deep. Sometimes it is as simple as reminding
Speaker 2: yourself that there are certain behaviors that you do that
Speaker 2: almost exacerbate that feeling of lack, loss, melancholy, melancholy, just
Speaker 2: everyday sadness, everyday sadness, and then you get stuck in
Speaker 2: this little cave of depression esque behavior without the common
Speaker 2: sense to be like, wait a second, have I gotten
Speaker 2: anything I find enjoyable? Anyway? This spot was prompted by
Speaker 2: TikTok I saw no surprise is there. The username is
Speaker 2: dk A z a nd.
Speaker 3: This is a quote by Frederick Nietzsche with it lines
Speaker 3: us that our thoughts are the product of our environment.
Speaker 3: So if you live in a small space, you will
Speaker 3: think small thoughts. If instead, you go to a space
Speaker 3: where you can't even see the edge of the map,
Speaker 3: the ideas will also expand. Sometimes we think we're depressed
Speaker 3: when we actually just need to leave the house.
Speaker 1: Now. A lot of things were saying, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I had to write something down for a minute, he
Speaker 1: opened his mouth.
Speaker 2: I disagree. Picture and listen, well, listen it. We're paying attention. Look,
Speaker 2: we have spoken before about this concept of if you
Speaker 2: want to think big and large, you need to go
Speaker 2: to a big and large space. But I also want
Speaker 2: to simplify what he's just said there and talk about
Speaker 2: this idea that sometimes the simplest explanation is the best one,
Speaker 2: and trying to find all this extra understanding and nuance
Speaker 2: without ticking off the basics feels futile. So if I'm
Speaker 2: feeling down and not take into consideration that I haven't
Speaker 2: had any water, i haven't slept really well, I've not
Speaker 2: spoken to my friends, my house is messy, maybe just
Speaker 2: maybe we should tick that off instead of going on
Speaker 2: TikTok and being like adhd the pipeline.
Speaker 1: Oh dear, I mean, we're not gonna minimize mental illness
Speaker 1: here on the network from show. However, I will also
Speaker 1: say this niche quote, thoughts are the product of your environment.
Speaker 1: I tend to disagree with that. I don't think I
Speaker 1: think that's serious. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm also just thinking, like if your physical room right, no,
Speaker 2: I think about a lot of things.
Speaker 1: I think your thoughts can be totally independent of your environment.
Speaker 1: I'm reading a book at the moment by Kerry Sackville.
Speaker 1: I think it's The Secret.
Speaker 2: Life of You.
Speaker 1: Shout out, Kerry, what a queen, and she talks about
Speaker 1: I'm about ten pages in. He talks about this concept
Speaker 1: of the backstore of your brain, so you can be
Speaker 1: anywhere and you can be down in the backstore, like
Speaker 1: imagining things, fantasizing about things. I think the idea that
Speaker 1: thoughts equal environment isn't it.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's what that means. Though Thoughts don't
Speaker 2: equal environment, but thoughts are a product of environment, Like,
Speaker 2: for example, juice isn't the supermarket. You can get juice
Speaker 2: in the supermarket.
Speaker 1: But nature did not envision his little quotes to be
Speaker 1: butchered on live radio.
Speaker 2: So is this idea that, like, if you want to
Speaker 2: change the way you think about things as a start,
Speaker 2: change your environment, change who you hang out with, where
Speaker 2: you hang out, why you hang out with those people,
Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I think that's a
Speaker 2: good step, but I don't think it's saying that your
Speaker 2: thoughts are separate from you in the way that your
Speaker 2: environment made them and for that reason, you know, they
Speaker 2: just popped up in there. I wrote this question in
Speaker 2: one of my reflex card games. Where do you think
Speaker 2: you inherit your beliefs from because people don't think about
Speaker 2: that enough. Do you think you just like sat on
Speaker 2: the internet and then became a well rounded person. No,
Speaker 2: you're inheriting stuff constantly from that person you follow that
Speaker 2: news article you half read, you know, like really funny
Speaker 2: quip you saw over here in conversation at the supermarket.
Speaker 2: You're inheriting stuff constantly based on where you're going and
Speaker 2: who you're interacting with. A couple of weeks ago, I
Speaker 2: got really excited about Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which he
Speaker 2: did co opt and steal, but we won't get into
Speaker 2: that because it reminded me that we're all kind of
Speaker 2: stuck in this really advanced way of living where we
Speaker 2: don't want to get the basics in order. We just
Speaker 2: want to go to premium land, right. So we don't
Speaker 2: want to get our daily habits sorted. We don't want
Speaker 2: to get our full eight hours of sleep we don't
Speaker 2: want to drink water, we don't want to get morning sun.
Speaker 2: Shout out to human.
Speaker 1: Literally, don't make me say again, human lab.
Speaker 2: But we all want to go straight to self actualization.
Speaker 2: If we tick that off, everything will fix itself. It's
Speaker 2: like no, everything just gets infinitely harder. It's hard to
Speaker 2: think small when you're stuck thinking big.
Speaker 1: It's like a mass equation. It's way easier to work,
Speaker 1: break it down, rue it, but it's the hardest thing.
Speaker 2: Come on, and I could never do it. But I
Speaker 2: also think this is part of like the modern trap.
Speaker 2: It's also why I talk about, you know, not wanting
Speaker 2: to do critical thinking with strangers, not wanting to turn
Speaker 2: everything into a philosophical discussion, because when you go to abstract,
Speaker 2: you can't simplify and say, wait, but what if inserts
Speaker 2: simple idea, because everything up until that point negates that
Speaker 2: it could ever be that simple. So this idea that
Speaker 2: like everybody's quote unquote chronically depressed when they don't want
Speaker 2: to leave the house. Yes, correlation does not equal causation.
Speaker 2: But when we think about what is the cure for
Speaker 2: this sense of melancholy, we go straight to the most
Speaker 2: extreme thing, and that we don't want to hear when
Speaker 2: someone's like, do you exercise.
Speaker 1: We're like, shot, don't shame me from my behavior. Listen,
Speaker 1: I think for me. Yeah, talk about it recently getting
Speaker 1: my period?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I love this. Why do I feel so much
Speaker 2: more comfortable toward my periods? Really, the potty is the
Speaker 2: matriarchy me.
Speaker 1: Not me coming through like five years of thaying know
Speaker 1: to period brands because I didn't get my period, like
Speaker 1: I am a truthful queens, but that's.
Speaker 2: Like me and drinking alcohol. I was like no, no, no,
Speaker 2: And then I turned twenty nine, I said, I want
Speaker 2: to get involved in life experiences and make a bag.
Speaker 2: Time to get the bad girls. If you see some
Speaker 2: period content, just no, I'm really in the trenches. Wait,
Speaker 2: is that why Libra is in my dms this morning?
Speaker 2: Because they know? Why does Libra know that they're trying
Speaker 2: to get the.
Speaker 1: Bad kick back from fruity no becoming a period girl.
Speaker 1: I got very, very excited about tracking it and chronicling
Speaker 1: it to see how my mood shift, because I remember
Speaker 1: when I was in high school and I had my period,
Speaker 1: I'd get really bad p mess, like it's giving cracking
Speaker 1: the sads, crying, and then you're like, damn, the period came.
Speaker 1: I don't think there were period trackers back there, but
Speaker 1: now they have it. Tell me why two days before
Speaker 1: my period, I'm feeling road rage and then I get it.
Speaker 1: But now that I have my tracker, literally every morning
Speaker 1: says you feel this today, and I'm like, whoa I do?
Speaker 1: My mom says, maybe it's psychosomatic. But even if it is, great, yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's helping me track my moods, which is a
Speaker 1: really amazing thing to do.
Speaker 2: I'm loving it.
Speaker 1: So I guess they took my period in order to
Speaker 1: do that. You were saying this.
Speaker 2: Morning about how hormonal cycles.
Speaker 1: Hormonal cycles for Afab yeap the Afab girl is twenty
Speaker 1: eight days.
Speaker 2: Yeah, on average, not if we have pcos or anything.
Speaker 2: These are all on average, and it's biological binaries. I'm
Speaker 2: so sorry to do it to here. But then men
Speaker 2: have twenty four hour hormonal cycles, which to a lot
Speaker 2: of people means nothing. You're like, what and then rem
Speaker 2: sleep and then homeostasis, But it means everything because when
Speaker 2: you start to understand if you are working towards the
Speaker 2: twenty eight day cycle and you're like, you're regular, everything
Speaker 2: about the way that you go through a month feels
Speaker 2: like Groundhog's Day, but in the best way possible. You're like,
Speaker 2: the diary is back. Yeah, it's back. My period's coming,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: And the other thing I realized is like, when you
Speaker 1: need to prove heaps on your period, it's because this
Speaker 1: it's not progesterone, but it's some like seeps into your
Speaker 1: bowls and like makes you go to the toilet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so amazing, guys, Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it's nice. I also think this whole idea of
Speaker 2: wanting to overcomplicate the issue is a byproduct of this
Speaker 2: like hyper individuality. I'm so unique, nobody would get it
Speaker 2: type thing. Because it pains me to know that if
Speaker 2: I understood my mental cycle when I was thirteen, that
Speaker 2: I could actually make like proper informed decisions about what
Speaker 2: I have the capacity to do and not do. Because
Speaker 2: shit's night and day. I'm in pre flop right now,
Speaker 2: and it's like, it's taken a minute. All I want
Speaker 2: to do is sleep and nap and eat. The explanation
Speaker 2: is not the justification, okay, right, So it's like if
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm in pre flop, so all I'm
Speaker 2: going to do is eat and sleep, I'm so that's
Speaker 2: what I want to feel like doing, and yet I'm up.
Speaker 2: The energy's here, I'm working, I'm getting through it. But
Speaker 2: I have context and I'm not pathologizing this thing and
Speaker 2: being like I might be, you know, a neandering animal
Speaker 2: because I want to eat everything today. It's like, oh, actually,
Speaker 2: I know what's happening with my body. Thank you? Cool?
Speaker 2: You know the context, because then you start to over
Speaker 2: personalize it. What's wrong with my diet? Every same time
Speaker 2: every month, I've got raging diarrhea, but you don't do
Speaker 2: anything about it because you're kind of like, well, it's
Speaker 2: just my body. It's like, but for what reason.
Speaker 1: Let's learn more about the body. Don't make me say
Speaker 1: his name again, guys, she tell me why on the way,
Speaker 1: I've got mister human blasting through my ears? What a king?
Speaker 1: All right?
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Speaker 2: Who you say it always is? Really before we go guys?
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