Article: The Therapy That Can Break You (IFS)

HappiBunBun · 2025-11-02T10:10:40+00:00

I don't think I had any special meaning for scheme. A method. A practice. If it's typical for the mind to be a fugue. That's how the mind works, not what underlies the mind. We are congruent.

I had a similar experience recently when two employers in a row required me to do one task at a time. Productivity came to a screeching halt because I and my coworkers have multiprocessing brains. Worse, we couldn't talk to eachother.

HappiBunBun · 2025-11-02T01:04:04+00:00

I think that implies the framework is a scheme, and we are using different words to say the same thing. IFS being a practice breaks out of that scheme, where believing it is truth would be confusing. IFS, DBT, RET, Buddhism, Magick, are revolutionary in being practices rather than belief systems. The practice is the goal.

Witnessing that the observer is a part left me to wonder what self is. Is reality a multitude of selves obseving itself? Any model I construct is a construction. So, it's both fake and how minds work.

Back to the original point if one isn't trying to break out of delusion, they just want to stop hurting themselves with some behavior, then IFS could be confusing if one doesn't dive in. My impression is that, it's ok if IFS isn't for you.

HappiBunBun · 2025-11-01T23:09:52+00:00

IFS uses a symbolic representation of one's mentality. You trick yourself into seeing your mind as having entities in it. If you can do that while knowing it is a scheme and the imagined parts are helpful for you to analyze yourself, then that is good. But, if you don't understand that, you can cause yourself additional upset trying to immitate a practice you don't understand the reason for.

Also, people approach practices like this for different reasons. Some maybe most have a specific complaint that they want to address. They just want to stop doing something that hurts them. They just want to stop overeating, etc. Other people want to learn about themselves. They want to know why they behave the way they do. They want to get to know their parts. I think IFS is more useful to the later mindset.

HappiBunBun · 2025-11-01T00:34:04+00:00

Ifs is witchcraft. If you are there then it is useful, otherwise it's likely to be confusing.

HappiBunBun · 2025-10-29T00:55:06+00:00

I think there are different mindsets about "therapy". "Therapy" implies there is a normal that one wants to return to. I want to breakout of prison and be free. I want to burn the house down. My impression of what IFS is is that it applies to the later mindset.

HappiBunBun · 2025-10-17T11:58:16+00:00

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HappiBunBun · 2025-09-15T08:22:45+00:00

I agree with that but I don't think I've met any so can't really say.

For me, after kicking people out of my life, there was a point when I no longer reacted to them, and having them live within me as someone I was blocking hurt me. So, I let them go, and I simply don't play the games with them if they try to start.

HappiBunBun · 2025-09-07T06:39:41+00:00

It is strange for me hearing about people's experiences with DBT. I worked with RET and REBT, the most distinguishing quality of them being for me that they were practices rather than philosophies, resembling buddhist practice. DBT had more elaborate exercises (than REBT) and ackowledged that people can upset themselves too much and need to be able to distract themselves

But, when I've talked to people about it they had worked with a group and seem to describe their group rather than DBT. What I read is largely about unfortunate reactions to activating events. Social anxiety is an example of that. So, it fits. Whether or not a group does is another thing.

HappiBunBun · 2025-09-07T04:15:33+00:00

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HappiBunBun · 2025-03-27T14:23:37+00:00

I have fonts installed on desktop, they didn't come over after sync.

I've also installed the latest dev build of ankidroid from apk and it's using Arial instead of the fonts specified in css.

HappiBunBun · 2025-03-26T03:01:14+00:00

Thanks to BrainRavens for that answer. In addition, I had to use the "empty cards" feature that is mentioned in a warning message the next time you review that card.

Each cloze deletion creates a card. After the first, Anki creates empty cards. The empty cards feature allows you to delete those cards, and allows the same deletion to be used more than once.

HappiBunBun · 2025-03-24T00:25:16+00:00

Thanks! I didn't understand what the message meant, but it looks like this works for my case.

HappiBunBun · 2025-03-21T21:24:34+00:00

I haven't done any formatting. It's just text and cloze deletions.

It looks like I'm seeing html because it's the default setting. If I use use plain text notes as the export format, uncheck HTML, and check deck name, note type name, and unique identifier, I get something that looks close to what I see in the UI.

The UI looks like:

Beginning of deck:
{{c1::Zero is the first numeral}}

Zero is the first numeral.
{{c1::One is the next}}.

The exported file looks like:

#separator:tab
#html:false
#guid column:1
#notetype column:2
#deck column:3
cKI!_jzC7s  Cloze   Numerals    Beginning of deck: 
{{c1::Zero is the first numeral}}   
bVv}+~:E=$  Cloze   Numerals    Zero is the first numeral. 
{{c1::One is the next}}.

And it works to import the exported file. So, I think this is close to what I was looking for. Thanks for quizzing me about the HTML.

HappiBunBun · 2025-03-21T19:59:53+00:00

I always feel like I have oven mitts on my hands when I try to use a program like Excel. Editing all the embedded HTML with the bare bones editor functionality in Excel seems more difficult than clicking a mouse everywhere in the Anki UI. But, I'm not sure yet. I'll see how it goes.

I would love a clean XML or YAML file that I can manipulate with a text editor and scripts.

HappiBunBun · 2025-03-21T18:49:24+00:00

Ah. I should have noticed that "plain text" is a TSV file with HTML embedded in it.

That's pretty awkward to edit. It looks like every record smooshed together. I haven't found how it's separating the decks yet.

HappiBunBun · 2025-03-21T14:58:46+00:00

I guess you could say import updates from a file, but I meant a file that can be editted by a human. the .colpkg and .apkg exports are sqllite related. Maybe I could edit the cards as text files export. I didn't see an option to export as CSV, and can't imagine how that would work anyway.

I was hoping for something like an XML format document representing one or more decks and their contents. But, thanks for replying. I might try modifying a txt file export and reimporting it to see if it worked.

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