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The Mind

The mental health discussion has been doing society a lot of good. It's in its infancy so reckon it's not ideal to have high expectations about the dialogue yet. However, there's a very important topic I think should be talked about more often, the mind.

It took me a lot of pain and happenstances for me to understand I am not my thoughts. Even when I finally learned that, the pain was still tremendous and it's still taking me a lot of digging to learn how to tame this beast called mind.

One of my biggest torments was that I couldn't read. Whatever was happening in my mind kept distracting me from reading, which in turn conditioned me to have this fear of getting distracted while reading. I already knew about things such as mindfulness, meditation and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and they all taught me a lot, but there were still things that were making my life impossible. I finally "caved in" and started asking ChatGPT for things. I explained my situation and the advice it gave me was phenomenal. I ascribe my progress to the decision I took of asking ChatGPT for help, definitely. It/them (?) gave a lot of different options and I could choose the ones that worked for me the best, no need for a one or the other approach. I could use a hybrid approach.

This might obvious to a lot of people, but it was not for me and if society is not helping us that need to learn certain things consciously, I think it's failing us.

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The Mind

One of my biggest torments was that I couldn't read.

Whatever was happening in my mind kept distracting me from reading, which in turn conditioned me to have this fear of getting distracted while reading.

I already knew about things such as mindfulness, meditation and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and they all taught me a lot, but there were still things that were making my life impossible.

I finally "caved in" and started asking ChatGPT for things.

I explained my situation and the advice it gave me was phenomenal.

I ascribe my progress to the decision I took of asking ChatGPT for help, definitely.

It/them (?)

I could use a hybrid approach.

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The mental health discussion has been doing society a lot of good.

I explained my situation and the advice it gave me was phenomenal.

I could use a hybrid approach.

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The Mind

One of my biggest torments was that I couldn't read.

I explained my situation and the advice it gave me was phenomenal.

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The Mind

Whatever was happening in my mind kept distracting me from reading, which in turn conditioned me to have this fear of getting distracted while reading.

I already knew about things such as mindfulness, meditation and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and they all taught me a lot, but there were still things that were making my life impossible.

I explained my situation and the advice it gave me was phenomenal.

I could use a hybrid approach.

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The Mind

The mental health discussion has been doing society a lot of good.

However, there's a very important topic I think should be talked about more often, the mind.

Even when I finally learned that, the pain was still tremendous and it's still taking me a lot of digging to learn how to tame this beast called mind.

One of my biggest torments was that I couldn't read.

Whatever was happening in my mind kept distracting me from reading, which in turn conditioned me to have this fear of getting distracted while reading.

I already knew about things such as mindfulness, meditation and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and they all taught me a lot, but there were still things that were making my life impossible.

I finally "caved in" and started asking ChatGPT for things.

I explained my situation and the advice it gave me was phenomenal.

I could use a hybrid approach.

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The mental health discussion has been doing society a lot of good.


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The discussion around mental health discussion has been doing society a lot of good. The discussion around mental health has been doing society a lot of good.

The mental health discussion has been dobenefitting society a lot of goods a whole. The mental health discussion has been benefitting society as a whole.

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TheDiscussion of mental health discussion has been doing society a lot of good. Discussion of mental health has been doing society a lot of good.

It's in its infancy so reckon it's not ideal to have high expectations about the dialogue yet.


It's in its infancy so I reckon it's not ideal to have high expectations about the dialogue yet. It's in its infancy so I reckon it's not ideal to have high expectations about the dialogue yet.

It's in its infancy so I reckon it's not ideal to have high expectations about the dialogue yet. It's in its infancy so I reckon it's not ideal to have high expectations about the dialogue yet.

"reckon -> I reckon": You need a actor for reckon here Not related to the correction as such, but this kind of contradicts the first sentence but you don't really acknowledge that.

It'sBut, it's still in its infancy, so reckon it's not yet ideal to have high expectations about thefor it's dialogue yet. But, it's still in its infancy, so it's not yet ideal to have high expectations for it's dialogue.

Usually: Expectations ( for / of ) ...

It's in its infancy so reckonearly stages, so it's not ideal to have high expectations about the dialogue yet. It's in its early stages, so it's not ideal to have high expectations about the dialogue yet.

It's in its infancy so reckonearly stages, so it's not ideal to have high expectations about the dialogue yet. It's in its early stages, so it's not ideal to have high expectations about the dialogue yet.

"It's in its infancy" is technically correct, as the meaning is easily inferred. However, it sounds more natural to use "early stages" as it fits the connotation of developing ideas more than opposed to child development.

It's in its infancy so I reckon it's not ideal to have high expectations about the dialogue yet. It's in its infancy so I reckon it's not ideal to have high expectations about the dialogue yet.

However, there's a very important topic I think should be talked about more often, the mind.


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However, there's a verymore important topic that I think should be talked about more often, the mind. However, there's a more important topic that I think should be talked about more often, the mind.

However, there's a very important topic I think should be talked about more often, which is the mind. However, there's a very important topic I think should be talked about more often, which is the mind.

However, there's a very important topic I think should be talked about more often,: the mind. However, there's a very important topic I think should be talked about more often: the mind.

When you phrase sentences like this, as in use a clause to introduce a subject, you should use a colon. This is just one way to make this sentence better.

However, there's a very important topic I think should be talked about more often,: the mind. However, there's a very important topic I think should be talked about more often: the mind.

It took me a lot of pain and happenstances for me to understand I am not my thoughts.


It took me a lot of pain and happenstances for me to understand I am not my thoughts. It took me a lot of pain and happenstances for me to understand I am not my thoughts.

I would say "experiences" instead of "happenstances" here. They don't seem like happenstances/coincidences to me but things that simply occurred in your life.

It took me a lot of pain and happenstaexperiences for me to understand I am not my thoughts. It took me a lot of pain and experiences for me to understand I am not my thoughts.

I agree with the other poster, experiences is better than happenstances.

It took me a lot of pain and happenstances for mexperience to understand that I am not my thoughts. It took me a lot of pain and experience to understand that I am not my thoughts.

Happenstance is kind of a weird word in English, but it doesn't really fit here.

It took me a lot of pain and happenstances for me to understand that I am not my thoughts. It took me a lot of pain and happenstances for me to understand that I am not my thoughts.

It took me a lot of pain and happenstances for me to understand that I am not my thoughts. It took a lot of pain and happenstances for me to understand that I am not my thoughts.

The subject "me" does not need to be included twice. Also a conjunction for a relative clause is needed because the sentence "I am not my thoughts" depends on the previous clause.

It took me a lot of pain and happenstances for me to understand I am not my thoughts. It took me a lot of pain and happenstances for me to understand I am not my thoughts.

Had to google what happenstances means lol it does sound a bit out of place here but I'm not sure what it would be replaced with

gave a lot of different options and I could choose the ones that worked for me the best, no need for a one or the other approach.


gave a lot of different options and I could choose the ones that worked for me the best, no need for a one or the other approach. gave a lot of different options and I could choose the ones that worked for me the best, no need for a one or the other approach.

It gave a lots of different options and I could choose the onesose that worked best for me the best, no need for a one or the other approach. It gave lots of options and I could choose those that worked best for me.

a lot of -> lots of the ones -> those for me the best -> best for me

ChatGPT/It/They gave a lot of different options and I could choose the ones that worked for me the best, no need for a one or the other approach. ChatGPT/It/They gave a lot of different options and I could choose the ones that worked for me the best.

gave a lot of different options, and I could choose the ones that worked for me the best,; no need for a one -or -the -other approach. gave a lot of different options, and I could choose the ones that worked for me the best; no need for a one-or-the-other approach.

"and" is used as a conjunction in this sentence, therefore a comma is needed before it. "no need for a one-or-the-other" is closely related to the previous sentence and serves as an additional clause even though it is also independent. A semi colon can be used here. when you write "one or the other", all four of those words together are used like an adjective so it is better to hyphenate them as one-or-the-other.

gave a lot of different options and I could choose the ones that worked the best for me, there best,ing no need for a one or the otherstrict approach. gave a lot of different options and I could choose the ones that worked the best for me, there being no need for strict approach.

I could use a hybrid approach.


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I could also use a hybrid approach. I could also use a hybrid approach.

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This might obvious to a lot of people, but it was not for me and if society is not helping us that need to learn certain things consciously, I think it's failing us.


This might be obvious to a lot of people, but it was not for me and if society is not helping us thatwho need to learn certain things consciously, I think it's failing us. This might be obvious to a lot of people, but it was not for me and if society is not helping us who need to learn certain things consciously, I think it's failing us.

There was no verb in the clause before the comma.

This might be obvious to a lot of people, but it was not for me and if society is not helping those of us that need to learn certain things consciously, I think it's failing us. This might be obvious to a lot of people, but it was not for me and if society is not helping those of us that need to learn certain things consciously, I think it's failing us.

This might <...> needs a verb, so if you're going to use it with an adjective you need to use be here. "Not helping us that" -> "not helping those of us that". You might hear people say the first one in casual speech, I think if you're going to have the "that ..." clause on the end you need to use "those of us" and not simply "us".

This might be obvious to a lot of peopleyou, but it was not for me and i. If society is not helping us that need to learn certain thingslearn consciously, I think it's failing us. This might be obvious to you, but it was not for me. If society is not helping us learn consciously, it's failing us.

This might be obvious to a lot of people, but it was not for me and i. If society is not helping us that need to learn certain things consciously, I think it's failing us. This might be obvious to a lot of people, but it was not for me. If society is not helping us learn certain things, I think it's failing us.

What is the thing that society is failing to teach us?

This might obvious to a lot of people, but it(therapy?) was not for me and. Also, if society is not helping us that(fulfill) our need to learn certain things consciously, then I think it's failing us. This might obvious to a lot of people, but (therapy?) was not for me. Also, if society is not helping us (fulfill) our need to learn certain things consciously, then I think it's failing us.

The subject was missing and made the sentence difficult to understand. Judging from the context of this post "therapy" seemed to be what you were referring to. "fulfill" is the correct word to use in this context.

This might be/sound obvious to a lot of people, but it was not for me and if society is not helping us that we need to learn certain things consciously, I think it's failing us. This might be/sound obvious to a lot of people, but it was not for me and if society is not helping us that we need to learn certain things consciously, I think it's failing us.

Even when I finally learned that, the pain was still tremendous and it's still taking me a lot of digging to learn how to tame this beast called mind.


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Even when I finallyonce I had learnedt that, the pain was still tremendous and it's still has taking me a lot of digg( thinking / soul-searching ) to learn how to tame this beast called the mind. Even once I had learnt that, the pain was still tremendous and it has taking me a lot of ( thinking / soul-searching ) to learn how to tame this beast called the mind.

Even when I finally learned that, the pain was still tremendous, and it's still taking me a lot of digging to learn how to tame this beast called, also known as my mind. Even when I finally learned that, the pain was still tremendous, and it's still taking me a lot of digging to learn how to tame this beast, also known as my mind.

Even when I finally learned that, the pain was still tremendous, and it's still taking me a lot of digging to learn how to tame this beast called mind. Even when I finally learned that, the pain was still tremendous, and it's still taking me a lot of digging to learn how to tame this beast called mind.

"and" is used as a conjunction in this sentence. Therefore, a comma is needed

Even when I finally learned that, the pain was still tremendously high and it's still taking me a lot of diggingreflection to learn how to tame this beast called the mind. Even when I finally learned that, the pain was still tremendously high and it's still taking me a lot of reflection to learn how to tame this beast called the mind.

I think you can say tremendous but my brain clocks this as incomplete lmao

One of my biggest torments was that I couldn't read.


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One of my biggest torments was that I couldn't read well. One of my biggest torments was that I couldn't read well.

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One of my biggest tormentstruggles was that I couldn't read. One of my biggest struggles was that I couldn't read.

the sentence is grammatically correct, but "torments" is not usually used this way. "struggles", "challenges", "problems" etc. would all suffice.

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Whatever was happening in my mind kept distracting me from reading, which in turn conditioned me to have this fear of getting distracted while reading.


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Whatever was happening in mMy mind kept distracting me from reading, which in turn conditioned me to have this fear of getting distracted while reading. My mind kept distracting me from reading, which in turn conditioned me to have this fear of getting distracted while reading.

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I finally "caved in" and started asking ChatGPT for things.


I finally "caved in" and startedwas asking ChatGPT for things. I finally "caved" and was asking ChatGPT.

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I finally "caved in" and started asking ChatGPT for things. I finally caved in and started asking ChatGPT for things.

caved in is a common enough piece of language to not need the scare quotes

I finally "caved in" and started asking ChatGPT for thingsadvice. I finally "caved in" and started asking ChatGPT for advice.

I finally "caved in" and started asking ChatGPT for thingsadvice. I finally "caved in" and started asking ChatGPT for advice.

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I already knew about things such as mindfulness, meditation and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and they all taught me a lot, but there were still things that were making my life impossible.


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I already knew about things, such as mindfulness, meditation and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and they all (CBT). While all these techniques taught me a lot, but there were still things that were making my life impossible. I already knew about things, such as mindfulness, meditation and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). While all these techniques taught me a lot, there were still things that were making my life impossible.

I already knew about things such as mindfulness, meditation, and Ccognitive Bbehavioral Ttherapy, and t. They all taught me a lot, but there were still things that were makingmade my life impossible. I already knew about things such as mindfulness, meditation, and cognitive behavioral therapy. They all taught me a lot, but there were still things that made my life impossible.

a comma after "meditation" is needed. "and they all taught me a lot, but there were still things-" having "and" and "but" in the same sentence creates a run-on sentence. The place where "and" or "but" starts could be a new sentence instead.

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I explained my situation and the advice it gave me was phenomenal.


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I ascribe my progress to the decision I took of asking ChatGPT for help, definitely.


I definitely ascribe my progress to the decision I took of asking ChatGPT for help, definitely. I definitely ascribe my progress to the decision I took of asking ChatGPT for help.

I ascribecredit my progress to the decision I took of asking ChatGPT for help, definitely. I credit my progress to the decision I took of asking ChatGPT for help, definitely.

ascribe is a pretty uncommon word and it's better to use a more common option here. I picked credit here which is more casual, another option is attribute which is a little more formal but still more common than ascribe.

I ascribecredit my progress to the decision I tookmade of asking ChatGPT for help, definitely. I credit my progress to the decision I made of asking ChatGPT for help, definitely.

1. Ascribe is maybe too formal sounding? 2. 'take' implies that you had a set of options to choose from. But since you just made it up in your head, you 'made' the decision.

I ascttribute my progress to themy decision I took of asking ChatGPT for help, definitely. I attribute my progress to my decision to ask ChatGPT for help.

"ascribe" is technically correct, but most English speakers would use the word "attribute" "the decision I took of" can simplified to "my decision" or "the decision I made".

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It/them (?) It

It/them (?) It

Them is plural and also used in a different part of speech. If you wanted to use a plural here you'd use they, but also chatgpt is singular, not plural.

It/them (?)'m unsure whether to refer to ChatGPT as it or them. I'm unsure whether to refer to ChatGPT as it or them.

It/them (?) It

ChatGPT is a "thing" so it is correct to use "It"

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