Healing From Brain Rot

TitusTwoWife · Sep 19, 2026

Thankfully, learning to be creative again wasn't as hard as I thought. Our minds can adjust within a few days once we decide to engage with things that require focus.

Today was good.

I got out a watercolor set and used it in an adult coloring book. I ended up mixing colors with a cup of water and my fingers. No masterpiece. But I felt really alive.

As a kid before I got a laptop, Id do all kinds of artwork. But I stopped valuing things that wouldn't "get me ahead" as I got older. Add in brain rot from Facebook notifications, a husband, kids, and it seemed like my creativity dried up completely.

The good thing is, creativity always comes back when welcomed.

Is anyone else healing from brain rot?

Lambano · Sep 20, 2026

In the corporate world, brain rot is associated with an endless stream of emails, conference calls, status meetings, reports, et. al.

My brain must look like a rotting banana.

TitusTwoWife · Sep 20, 2026

Sometimes motivational content and productivity idolization can be brain rot. Not that Im against all brain rot.

Too much motivation (or too little) and you're always discontent with where you're currently at. Too much productivity and you lose who you are.

TitusTwoWife · Sep 20, 2026

Create bad art.
Create for the joy of it.
Not to monetize.
For the joy of it.
There's dust on our souls from the world's pressure to conform.
Art dusts it off.

TitusTwoWife · Sep 29, 2026

I think my attention span is about 10-20 minutes right now. After that, I crave a break.

It always feels good to finish content thats longer than that.

TitusTwoWife · Oct 6, 2026

I was raised to see hobbies and art as a waste of time unless it made you money. Now my husband encourages me to to have them because they enrich our conversations and add whimsy to our lives.

TitusTwoWife · Saturday at 3:17 PM

To truly relax, I have to have content that needs investment. Doomscrolling won't do it.

CoachedByChrist · Saturday at 7:20 PM

This is beautiful. Creating for the joy of it, not to get ahead, is real rest for the mind. Putting the phone down and picking up something slow and hands on sounds like healing. Praying your creativity keeps coming back as you make room for it.

Gottservant · 2026-10-21T19:21:33-0500

The Devil must have bit down on my brain thousands of times - if anyone has developed brain rot, it's me!

Anchorite · 2026-10-21T19:52:04-0500

I experienced what I call a chemical lobotomy. I broke my back, had an epidural steroid injection that slipped and hit my sciatic nerve. I developed extreme pain, panic attacks, agoraphobia, depression, etc.

My doctor put me on 13 different medications. The last one, Lithium, turned me into a mindless zombie. I could not put two thoughts together in my head. I quit them all cold turkey.

That was back in the year 2000. It lasted a few years. Terrifying. But God has been restoring my mind.

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