YOU ARE NOT ALONE - A companion online community discussion board for The Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast with Paul Gilmartin

Titration thought:

Only when I can I don’t (eat meat, put off sleep, avoid people…).

Titration thought:

I consent to travel to work.

Titration thought:

I can hear you; too much so.

Thank you for sharing, Beany Boo. Please keep doing so.

May I ask what “titration” means in this context?

Titration refers to the conscious tapering of your emotional responses. For example, I feel angry. As I feel the anger, if I reduce the dosage of the anger by a few degrees, I suddenly have a subtly different response to the situation in which the anger was prompted. Or, as the anger comes through I subtly alter the way it’s coming through so as to express it in a more satisfying way.

It’s a way of describing taking the automatic out of psychological responses, and controlling the dosage up or down, so that they better fit, for me, specific situations. While I can’t control responses per se I can titrate them so they’re closer to my purpose.

There are some definitions if you search ‘titration psych’ although it also refers to working out the dosage of medication.

Beany is so deep a thinker. I am in awe.

Thank you

Let me add I’m not titrating every thought or feeling. There’ll be one in the series though that I’ll sense can be re-dialed and I’ll act on to subtly course redirect.

Sometimes something difficult for everyone asks me to consent.

I wait until I’m ready to.

My imagination is exhausted. Reality is too convoluted for it.

Beany Boo wrote: ↑August 17th, 2021, 4:58 pm My imagination is exhausted. Reality is too convoluted for it.

Word.