I need emotional Mithril Armor.

[Metalhead]

My brain can attack my emotional well being at any moment, and I need to tell myself to stop letting that happen.

I can't exist in a cocoon.

I can't game 24/7.

I need the emotional armor to face each day as a human being and not have kneejerk reactions to the news, to my memories, to just about anything.

Some things trigger a kneejerk reaction in me far too easily, I am acknowledging. I want to work on making that less of an issue.

 

[AprilR]

I relate to this too hard, also awesome way of putting it. Need to have a thicker skin.

 

[tree]

@Metalhead

You are paraphrasing some of the concepts from the book A Guide to Rational Living.

"I need to tell myself to stop letting that happen."
The idea that you are responding to a story that you are telling yourself is a major point of the book.

Wanting to make kneejerk reactions less of an issue points toward a realization that it's possible to
mediate one's responses. Events themselves are less important than a person's response to the events.