okay dont be mad but i just scheduled you for every appointment ever. you have an open house on tuesday and a doctor is removing your all of it tomorrow 👍
In the March-April 1953 issue of the comic book Weird Fantasy, an astronaut named Tarlton is sent to evaluate a planet for inclusion in the Great Galactic Republic. He finds a world which is designed based on Earth’s history, values, and legacy, and populated by sentient robots segregated by color. The robots are identical in every other way.
After a thorough review of the education, living conditions and treatment of the “inferior” blue robots, he concludes that this society needs to evolve further to join. The orange robots protest, not understanding where they fell short. But Tarlton assures them that there is reason for hope. Tarlton explains that his world had had a similar history but in time was able to move forward and mend its ways. When the astronaut returns to his spaceship and removes his helmet, we see that he is a Black man. The story, Judgment Day, was a bold and potentially suicidal move for a comic book publisher. In a medium which more often would feature a muscular white super-hero or a funny cartoon animal, Entertaining Comics (EC) placed in one of its science fiction comics a tale in which the only human being is a Black man.
the more time you spend in active recovery from any given self destructive behavior or addiction the more you understand the common conception of the “relapse” as defined by a broken “streak” to be, like, so bad for one’s own well-being that it would be funny if it weren’t resulting in just a lot of misery and death
I told my girlfriend to think of quitting vaping as training her endurance by seeing how long she can run before she gets tired, then doing it again and hoping to go further next time. She said it really helped her.
This is the stages of change model, with each circle being a part of the process of growth. You’ll notice how relapse is not a failing of the model, or a set back, but an active step in continuing to grow and change. Everytime you relapse, you learn something; maybe a certain time of year is difficult for you. Maybe certain people push you back into the habit. Maybe your other coping skills/replacement habits didn’t work how you wanted and you need to strengthen them, or develop new ones. Maybe it’s not quite as clear cut and you need to spend the time figuring out what exactly went wrong so you can catch it next time. It doesn’t matter the exact lesson, but it’s part of the process.
