I have no idea what’s going on with aversion factoring. I think there’s something else you need first, without which it will never really work.
Here’s my story: I spent most of the last 5 years averse to a whole bunch of shit, mostly revolving around either thinking or exposing myself to rejection from other humans (this included, as a special case, doing aversion factoring to myself). After doing a bunch of work on personal growth over the last year, which helped but did not solve the problem, most of my aversions suddenly disappeared in December when I switched to a ketogenic diet, then came back later in the winter (I think because I gave myself an electrolyte deficiency). For the last week or so I have been doing a whole bunch of shit spurred by the last CFAR workshop, including but not limited to drinking copious quantities of pedialyte, and my aversions are gone again.
(Here is a rough and ready model of what I think is happening: I think there were various senses in which I was constantly sick for most of the last 5 years, and mostly what my body wanted to do was conserve resources and wait for me to heal. So I was averse to anything that seemed like it wouldn’t help with this, until I became sufficiently less sick.)
Yea, sounds like you didn’t have enough spoons. I’ve heard Jordan Peterson say something along the lines of “helping patients fix their sleep schedules and diets is one of the most powerful clinical techniques.”
I’m also not entirely sure that aversion factoring is that helpful, especially with the big anxious aversions. I wanted to gesture towards a special case here which is more like “trivial inconvenience noticing” and more keeping with the tone of the first cycle. This is pretty much as far as I’ve gone thus far with aversion factoring and is already surprisingly useful.
I have no idea what’s going on with aversion factoring. I think there’s something else you need first, without which it will never really work.
Here’s my story: I spent most of the last 5 years averse to a whole bunch of shit, mostly revolving around either thinking or exposing myself to rejection from other humans (this included, as a special case, doing aversion factoring to myself). After doing a bunch of work on personal growth over the last year, which helped but did not solve the problem, most of my aversions suddenly disappeared in December when I switched to a ketogenic diet, then came back later in the winter (I think because I gave myself an electrolyte deficiency). For the last week or so I have been doing a whole bunch of shit spurred by the last CFAR workshop, including but not limited to drinking copious quantities of pedialyte, and my aversions are gone again.
(Here is a rough and ready model of what I think is happening: I think there were various senses in which I was constantly sick for most of the last 5 years, and mostly what my body wanted to do was conserve resources and wait for me to heal. So I was averse to anything that seemed like it wouldn’t help with this, until I became sufficiently less sick.)
Yea, sounds like you didn’t have enough spoons. I’ve heard Jordan Peterson say something along the lines of “helping patients fix their sleep schedules and diets is one of the most powerful clinical techniques.”
I’m also not entirely sure that aversion factoring is that helpful, especially with the big anxious aversions. I wanted to gesture towards a special case here which is more like “trivial inconvenience noticing” and more keeping with the tone of the first cycle. This is pretty much as far as I’ve gone thus far with aversion factoring and is already surprisingly useful.