• doctorcrimson@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Your whole generation is fucked if there are enough people who require media to sleep to relate to a post like this. No wonder ya’lls mental illness statistics are through the roof.

    “Doctor, I hear voices all the time!”

    “What do you do during the day?”

    “At work surrounded by people.”

    “What do you do at home?”

    “Watch people converse on TV”

    “What about when you sleep?”

    “Yeah, I leave it on.”

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      10 months ago

      I just need media to play as I fall asleep to block out my tinnitus man, my mental health problems are irrelevant to that fact.

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      10 months ago

      clinician here, there’s no link that I know of between hearing real voices and developing psychosis

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      10 months ago

      For me it’s less a case of ‘I need this ambient music to fall asleep’, and more a case of ‘I enjoy listening to this ambient music and also I can fall asleep to it’.

      It’s changed a bit for me now, but when I was a teen I used to just whack on whatever I was listening to/enjoying at the time to fall asleep to, be it ambient, death metal, jazz, classical etc.

      And as far as listening to people talking goes, that’s nowhere near a ‘this generation’ thing. The sound of quiet voices murmuring on is just a naturally relaxing thing, think of a parent talking to their baby to get them to go to sleep.

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      10 months ago

      I do agree, can’t argue there. I don’t actually fall asleep to media, but I know people that do.

      What we need is some outdoor activity, like hiking, cycling, whatever. I don’t think the gym is the right place, it’s still indoors. I think we’ve just lost touch with nature with all these smart devices.