Yeah, there's a trade-off though. Simple slogans seem to be much more effective, especially slogans with curse words. At least for my brain.
Yep, that old trade-off. Making it perpetually difficult to make posters. =]
I just worry that you'll say "fuck it, she's just a girl!" initially meaning "she's just one girl and not my whole life" but your brain will randomly decide to cache it verbatim and suddenly, two months later, you'll find yourself thinking "fuck it, she's just a girl!" in a different anxiety-inducing situation and interpreting it as "girls don't matter." Which is instrumentally bad, morality and things aside.
I started going out with a fantastic girl a couple of weeks ago. Everything is great, except that whenever I've sent her a text message or email requesting something and haven't received a response yet, I experience significant dysphoric anxiety, fearing that her response will be not just "no" but "no and I don't want to date you any more". This is due to brain chemistry or personal history, take your pick—either seems like a possible explanation to me. But there's certainly no evidence supporting the idea that this is likely to happen, nor is the anxiety helping me prevent it or helping me in any other way.
Does anyone have evidence-based advice, or pointers to same, on dealing with this kind of issue? It is the only splotch on what have otherwise been the best two weeks of my life.