Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 days agoHope Won't Save You. Practice Might.
Hope is built through presence and feeling the full weight of circumstances, not through goal-setting strategies alone when facing compound complexity.
You log into a virtual world. Your body is digital: it can't be touched, it doesn't have a scent. And yet, someone leans in too close. Their avatar stares, their avatar's hand reaches toward your face. You feel invaded. You haven't been physically touched, but something more elusive, and no less real, has happened. This is not the future; it's the present of immersive technology.