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Costanza comments on Help Request: How to maintain focus when emotionally overwhelmed - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Costanza 08 December 2010 12:02:17AM *  2 points [-]

Net-positive is good! If congratulations are in order, then congratulations!

In my personal experience, the net-positive thrills are terrific, but too few and far between to merit extensive study. If you can arrange to take a bit of a break for a while until your life settles down, then do that. If not, then you probably don't have time right now to do much more than use a combination of common sense and sheer willpower.

The military and the emergency services have a lot of institutional knowledge of how to function during periods of extremely unpleasant stress. For example: http://www.hooah4health.com/mind/combatstress/default.htm .

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Comment author: Costanza 09 December 2010 03:40:47AM 0 points [-]

Thanks!

Comment author: throwaway 08 December 2010 12:11:11AM 0 points [-]

Net-positive is good! If congratulations are in order, then congratulations!

Thank you ^.^