#impulse-control — Public Fediverse posts
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Illumination in dark times
A genealogy of modern Western selfhood and a post-Western world"Smith ... outlines a genealogy of modern Western selfhood: a radically individual, hypermasculine character that was formed during the rapid nineteenth-century expansion of the white man’s world. “Bold, conquering, and altogether assertive,” it was “dedicated to action,” hostile to reflection, indifferent to community and the environment, and guilty of possessing, Smith writes, an “undeveloped heart,” a term borrowed from E. M. Forster’s assessment of the British elite." "
" “We must alter our very relations with the world around us.” This means giving up the exalted and exaggerated idea of the West that boosts a masculinist self-image but severely constricts thought and feeling. “We should welcome our era’s uncertainties,...the not-knowing of how the post-Western story will come out.” Smith’s final warning—that “we will not survive the Western notion of the individual much longer”—should resonate today, as nineteenth-century individualism reasserts itself in the degraded Nietzscheanism of Peter Thiel and Stephen Miller." >>
* Mishra, P. (2026, April). "The Authority of Thought". Harper's Magazine.
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/04/the-authority-of-thought-pankaj-mishra/* Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World by Patrick Smith. 2010 >>
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/169395/somebody-elses-century-by-patrick-smith/
#TheWest #WhiteSupremacy #masculinity #ImpulseControl #EthnoNationalism #WesternCivilization #AngloAmerican #parochialism #individualism #subjectivity #SettlerSociety #Culture #RacialInequality #war #EastWest #PostWesternWorld #DarkTimes #illumination #narrative #environmentImage: Double Bay War Memorial, Steyne Park, Sydney
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Let out your anger and let fly
Dear motorists (or anyone) you can now rent a rage room to vent your frustration. In shining protective armour with a crow bar in hand you can smash breakable objects (for a fee).This new recreational activity might improve your anger management.
No need to let out your aggression on other living beings any more.
Hundreds of rage rooms are operating in cities across the United States already >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_room
#violence #frustration #anger #rage #RoadRage #MaleRage #ImpulseControl #entitlement #powerlessness #control #status #cars #FossilFuel #traffic #DV #recreation #RageRoom -
Gambling Disorder: 4 Truths from a Groundbreaking New Study
Originally Published on January 20th, 2026 at 08:00 amWhen you picture someone with a gambling disorder, a specific image might come to mind. But what if that stereotype is outdated and dangerously incomplete?
A groundbreaking new study from an innovative program in Madrid called ‘Adcom’ reveals that the digital age is forging a new, more complex, and more hidden type of gambling addict. This research, based on hundreds of individuals who sought help voluntarily. And it challenges our most common assumptions about who is affected and why.
This article shares the most impactful and counter-intuitive findings from this research.
Prepare to see what gambling addiction really looks like today.
1. It’s Rarely Just About Gambling: The Hidden Mental Health Crisis
One of the study’s most critical findings is the extremely high rate at which Gambling Disorder co-occurs with other serious mental health conditions.
This situation, known as “Gambling Dual Disorder (GDD),” suggests that gambling is not an isolated issue. It’s a symptom of a much larger mental health struggle.
Among the participants who self-referred for a gambling problem, the numbers were stark:
- 57.4% showed evidence of other psychopathological symptoms.
- 64.9% experienced significant symptoms of depression.
- 51.3% were at risk for an anxiety disorder.
- 37.4% screened positive for ADHD.
This reframes gambling not as a simple lack of willpower, but as a complex disorder deeply intertwined with a person’s overall mental well-being. To be effective, treatment cannot just focus on the gambling; it must address these co-occurring conditions as well.
Gambling Disorder can be defined as “persistent and recurrent problematic gambling that leads to significant impairment or distress”.
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2. The Digital Divide: Online and Offline People with Gambling Disorder Are Strikingly Different People
This complex mental health picture becomes even more fragmented when we look at where the gambling happens. A divide that is creating two entirely different profiles of addiction.
The study revealed significant and clear differences between online gambling versus those who struggled with offline gambling. The most compelling demographic contrasts paint a clear picture:
- Age: The average online gambler was 30.6 years old, a full generation younger than the average offline gambler at 43.4 years old.
- Gender: While men were the majority in both groups, the disparity was much greater online. Only 5.3% of online gamblers were female, compared to 20.5% of offline gamblers.
- Prior Treatment: Individuals with offline gambling problems were far more likely to have previously sought help for a mental health issue (62.1%) than those with online problems (42.9%).
These differences are profound.
Technology has fractured the landscape of addiction. It’s created a younger, more isolated cohort that is harder to reach.
The fact that this online group has had significantly less prior contact with mental health services suggests a new, underserved population. A population that may not be captured by traditional outreach and may be less aware of their own underlying conditions.
More About Gambling Disorder
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Gambling Disorder: 4 Truths from a Groundbreaking New Study
New Adcom study reveals gambling disorder today: high mental-health overlap, online/offline differences, compulsive buying link, and key predictors.
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5 Hidden Ways the Gambling Industry Engineers Harm
A health lens reveals how the gambling industry engineers harm: blame-shifting “responsible gambling,” addictive design, and policy capture fueling crisis.
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Holiday Gambling: Why You Bet Matters More Than How Much
Are you planning to do a little gambling this holiday on a football game? Why you bet is more important than how much, according to this new study.
December 23, 2025
3. A Shocking Connection: Gambling Disorder and Compulsive Buying Go Hand-in-Hand
Perhaps the single most surprising finding was the powerful link between Gambling Disorder and another behavioral addiction: compulsive buying.
The study found that compulsive buying was a potential problem in an astonishing 85.2% of participants.
Breaking this down even further, for 57.7% of the entire group, the existence of a compulsive buying problem was considered “very probable/sure.”
This is highly counter-intuitive.
While both behaviors involve money, they are often viewed as completely separate issues. This powerful correlation is not just a quirky finding. It’s evidence that Gambling Disorder may be part of a broader spectrum of impulse-control disorders rooted in similar neurological pathways. It highlights a shared underlying mechanism related to the brain’s reward system and the cycle of financial distress and emotional coping.
4. Your Background and Other Vices Can Predict How You Gamble
The study went beyond simple descriptions to identify factors that could predict whether a person was more likely to struggle with online versus offline gambling. This analysis revealed a complex interplay of cultural factors, lifestyle, and co-occurring disorders that shape a person’s specific addictive behaviors.
The research identified several key predictors:
- Being born in Spain increased the odds of having an online gambling problem by more than five times.
- Excessive Internet use nearly tripled the odds of having an online gambling problem.
- Conversely, having a co-occurring alcohol addiction or an eating disorder significantly reduced the odds of having an online problem, making it far more likely the gambling problem was offline.
These points reveal that the specific form an addiction takes is not random. It is shaped by a combination of a person’s environment, other behaviors, and personal history.
Conclusion: A New Call for Awareness of Gambling Disorder
The message from this research is clear: the digital age has forged a new profile of gambling addiction that is younger, more hidden, and more complex. The old stereotypes simply don’t fit the modern reality.
Innovative programs like Adcom, which lower the barriers to seeking help, are not only crucial for providing treatment but also for gathering the vital data needed to truly understand the problem. This new knowledge allows for better prevention, more targeted interventions, and a more compassionate public understanding of a deeply challenging disorder.
Knowing that online addiction strikes a younger group with less mental health history, how must we radically change our outreach to find and help this hidden population before it’s too late?
How do you view gambling disorder after reading this article? Let us know in the comments!
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#addictionRecovery #ADHD #anxiety #behavioralAddiction #casinoGambling #comorbidity #compulsiveBuying #depression #digitalAddiction #dualDiagnosis #gamblingAddiction #gamblingDisorder #impulseControl #mentalHealth #mentalHealthTreatment #onlineGambling #problemGambling #publicHealth #researchStudy #sportsBetting -
Anyone else feel like Cyber Monday is just a test of our self-control? 🤔 Engadget's dropped a list of tech deals under $100, including AirTags (so you don't lose your *other* deals), cheap streaming, and even Lego plants. Because if it's under $100, is it really an impulse buy?
What's tempting you this year? 👇
https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-cyber-monday-deals-for-100-or-less-score-big-discounts-on-apple-anker-streaming-services-and-more-080046748.html?src=rss#CyberMonday #TechDeals #BudgetBuys #ImpulseControl #TechHumor
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CW: USPol
The orange moron continues to demonstrate his complete lack of understanding of, and interest in, how things actually work before he decides to issue orders about them.
His recent statements that he's ordering the "Department of War" (there is no such department in his cabinet) to resume nuclear weapons testing, however, are particularly dumb.
#Nuclear weapons tests by the USA have almost exclusively focused on gathering data on the performance of the weapons, to see how close they agree with the modelled and simulated versions during their development. Occasionally they result in a surprise (see: Operation Castle's Bravo detonation), which is critical data.
These tests require *many* months, or even years, of preparation and planning. Making and setting up the necessary instruments and data recorders after planning exactly *what* to collect from *where* and *when* is a ton of work, and takes considerable time.
It isn't slap-dash. You can't put together a useful weapons test in a month. Frankly, given that real-life testing hasn't been done in the USA in decades, and the expertise will likely have to be re-developed, I would be surprised if a useful test could be done in less than two years. Perhaps much longer!
If Trump gets a #test within a year, it will almost certainly be of the "take a #weapon out of inventory and set it off" type, and produce no useful data.
#USPol #Trump #USA #MangoMussolini #ImpulseControl #war #defence #idiot #NuclearWeapons
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Impulse control is lying?
"You'll die if you don't say what you're thinking."
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They say what the markets hate most of all is uncertainty. More than bad news, even.
And there is now an absolute idiot with a massive ego, a persecution complex, and zero impulse control behind the wheel of the USA's economy, and he's being "assisted" by a chaos monkey doing everything he can to screw up the domestic economy.
"Strap in, it's going to be a wild ride", etc, etc.
#MangoMussolini #USA #economy #market #StockMarket #uncertainty #Elmo #ego #persecution #impulse #ImpulseControl
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#GLP-1 shots are the new have/have-not divide. Society's that provide them to everyone outcompete those that don't. Same for employers to employees. #impulsecontrol #glp1
https://wildfirelabs.substack.com/p/the-100-trillion-disruption-the-unforeseen
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This is the kind of weird obsessive thing I can lose a hours to, with zero warning... I'm not one of those people who uses subtitles even though I can hear perfectly fine, but we usually have them on because my s/o likes them. Anyway, I was tweaking YouTube's subtitle settings, but for whatever reason decided they weren't quite granular enough, so I opened up Stylus (custom CSS extension) to get it just right, and well, uh... I got a little carried away.
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‘His lack of #impulsecontrol is remarkable’: #MichaelCohen’s online antics worry prosecutors
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Yes, it is a sign of how twisted the marketplace is that a generation of (mainly) younger men were first exposed to "clean up your room" by #JordanPeterson.
It is not just his politics that are wonky - his judgement is not to be relied on either.
I saw him on Maher -"You'll die if you don't say what you're thinking" - to a US TV audience!
Let's all give up on #ImpulseControl right?. No, let's consider what we are about, who we are and who we are communicating with. -
@susannah @samuelpepys
JP says that if you don't say what you're thinking you'll die!
Spose that goes for kicking baskets too.
This whole #ImpulseControl thing is really for the birds?
Oh, and next thing he said was to raise your children to be pleasant.
He's a psychology professor, so parents and carers, you can take it as gospel that you letting it all hang out will result in your children being pleasant.[Note to the gullible: JP is, too often, a dangerous fool. Impulse control is healthy.)
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I find it best not to assume that most of Musk's purposeful actions are purposeful actions.
The man appears to be missing the sanity-check filter in between impulse-generation and action-execution.