What did you learn about your inner critic's tactics?

Yes, it really helps to identify these feelings and their effects. It actually helps me distance myself from the feelings and their effects, and the inner critic itself. Like I don’t have to be defined by these things.

Yes, writing things down definitely helped. I can see the core of the issue and can try to work to catch myself at moments where my inner critic is most likely to strike.

It is nice to get something down and out of my head to see if I can better understand my situation better.

Nothing useful

It can help to actually formulate ideas on these topics

It’s there to protect me. Or at least it thinks it’s protecting me

The inner critic is like the super-protective mother. It’s fucking things up even though it may deep down have a good intention. I’m a grown-up man and I don’t need a protective mother the same way I don’t need to be anxious during sex. The fear of letting my partner down only means that I need to be more confident with her and understand that if our life is good, I’m not a failure for not being able to maintain as erection every now and then.

It helped me understand a bit more about what my inner critic is doing and how I respond to the even the idea of sex

Yeah it was actually helpful.

It was nice to reflect and realize where these thoughts were coming from and how I could see past them into what is reality.

Helped me understand how closely I tie my success in the bedroom to my masculinity

It feels like im about to take a test

The app keeps crashing as I journal, bloody annoying!

It helps to get my thoughts out on paper

This is very helpful to get my thoughts out on paper and to get a response from the prompt as well. This is as close as talking to a therapist as I’ll get so I really enjoyed this exercise.

Just how much it affects me and dominos into making it worse and worse. Answering those questions put it into a very clear light

It’s good to type my thoughts out and lay them out in front of me to really get a read on things

Learned to start identifying when it pops up and how I’m feeling and what happens after that

I liked journaling, helped me realize how critical my inner critic actually is so I can start ignoring these thoughts

Wow this journaling was actually a positive experience. I’d like more of this and for it to go deeper and deeper

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