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# Mental immune system
- URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/mental-immune-system/
- Published: 2019-05-17T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-10T08:01:46.000Z
- Description: Resilience is a lot more simple than they make out. And it's happening all the time. 🚿
- Author: Giles P Croft
- Tags: Resilience, Quick insight, Thought realisation, Real stories, Psychology, Moods, Metaphor, Mental Health, MECHANICS, Attention

Hands up who's done this?

✋🏻

So I get in the shower in a foul mood. Don't know why. I'm obsessing over some problem or other. Something's pissing me right off.

(You know, to the degree where I could quite easily wash my face with shampoo or something.)

5 minutes in, it's gone.

There's nothing on my mind. I'm not ecstatic or anything, just a bit blank.

😐

So then, this little voice pops up in my head and says,

> *“It's a bit quiet in here. Now, what was I fretting about?”*

…and I catch myself delving around in my brain desperately trying to re-fucking-activate my worries!!!!

What's THAT all about?!

😂

Just me?

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We have a perfectly good, expertly evolved, absolutely *genius,* personally tailored mental self-clearing mechanism that we all take for granted.

Our psychology is just as beautifully homeostatic as our pancreas, or our blood, or our lungs.

🔑

****Key Message**: RESILIENCE is the visible manifestation of our Psychological Immune System

Stop fiddling around in the machinery, people – you'll lose a finger in there!

💟

Giles

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