My friend and I use a lot of computer metaphors to help with our mental health. We call thoughts and mental health “software” and body “hardware.” So when I was getting headaches because of light, I didn’t know whether it was my eyes or SPD. So I wanted to go to the doctor to see if it was a software or hardware issue. We also use “rewriting the save file” to mean replacing trauma association, with better ones
We use a lot of those too (partially because we and our partner system are android heavy internally).
Metaphors like this just make it so much easier to talk about these things.
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