One aspect of both rationality training and EA I feel interacts poorly with anxiety is that it can make it easy to implicitly get into a frame of fixing yourself or doing things because you are bad. Even the title of this site is a fairly negative frame. Opportunity/obligation distinction seems relevant. One thing I have done to combat this in myself is inverting biases so I can make sticky a positive/opportunity version.
Oh, definitely. I’ve heard the term “scrupulosity” thrown around to describe this.
It’s pretty obvious that this site wasn’t put together with mental illness in mind. That’s not a criticism, and other rationalist types have injected some community awareness about that.
The thing about mental illness, as opposed to just ordinary bias, is that the techniques for coping with the former can look inane or obvious when you’re in the mindset of the latter.
One aspect of both rationality training and EA I feel interacts poorly with anxiety is that it can make it easy to implicitly get into a frame of fixing yourself or doing things because you are bad. Even the title of this site is a fairly negative frame. Opportunity/obligation distinction seems relevant. One thing I have done to combat this in myself is inverting biases so I can make sticky a positive/opportunity version.
Oh, definitely. I’ve heard the term “scrupulosity” thrown around to describe this.
It’s pretty obvious that this site wasn’t put together with mental illness in mind. That’s not a criticism, and other rationalist types have injected some community awareness about that.
The thing about mental illness, as opposed to just ordinary bias, is that the techniques for coping with the former can look inane or obvious when you’re in the mindset of the latter.