JaiMontag
🛑 Important Disclaimer 🛑
I am not a mental health professional, a medical doctor, or a licensed therapist.
This book is intended to be a supplement to professional guidance, not a replacement.
None of the content in this guide is intended to be interpreted as psychological, medical, or clinical advice.
If you are experiencing mental distress or suicidal thoughts, please seek help immediately from a qualified mental health professional or emergency service.
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For too long, we have treated the symptoms of mental distress--anxiety, fatigue, distraction, and intrusive thoughts--as failures or "bugs" in the human system, leading to self-blame and shame. This guide offers a radical, programming-inspired reframing: your symptoms are not bugs; they are features, protective mechanisms working exactly as written, just running an outdated or over-sensitive version of a necessary survival program. By performing a "code review" of eleven common mental health experiences-from the Hyper-Vigilant Alarm of anxiety to the Mandatory System Shutdown of depression-this book encourages you to swap judgment for curiosity, leading you toward the professional "patches and updates" needed to adjust your system settings, not delete them entirely.