Hmm... That is probably true.
I honestly can't concieve of what a life would be like for a person bad at introspection. I practiced a lot of meditation some 10 years ago in my continual quest to stop the pain of depression and I forgot what life was like before then.
This is a thing Stardusk and... even JP has mentioned... that once you end up away from an area of a bell curve it can be hard to understand how a person on the other end experiences things. (In this case they were talking about IQ)

Meditation helped me considerably.

More than anything else before or since.

I went to China for 6 months

martial arts training, it completley changed me

meditation was part of the exp;erience

I can say, from experience, that breathing is fogotten skil

you learn to breath properly when you exert the body

squatting, is a great way, striking works too

It helped but didn't fix it.
I still had terrible episodes for years afterwards.
It wasnt till about a year or two ago that I finally solved it, mostly by researching and realizing that my goals in life (>_> Blue pill dreams of a happy family life) were impossible and were keeping my set up for continual failure.
After that I realized I didn't need external validation and then poof. A month later I stopped crying in a corner and ripping my hair out while debating if I should hang myself in my closet.

Well, meditation and buddhism helped. Learn to let go.

gdamn...

I was in the military as well, I've known two guys that offed themselves

they were in th emilitary as well

@Kragt I'm glad to hear you tackled that yourself, that's a frightfully uncommon end to that story.

forreal

@Wojak What's your take on the "commercialized" Buddhism getting sold as self-help now?

Yeah @Wojak my problem was I didn't learn that lesson for a while.
Learning psychology and where those feelings came from made them a lot less important.

@Kragt Jung saved my life, too. Not an exaggeration.

Like most things given to you fast and cheap, it's fattening and bad for you.

sometimes you just need to go squat though

@Five, Seven, and Two Depends, what are your thoughts on eat pray love.

getting too caught up in your feelings isn't healthy

@Kragt Seething hatred comes to mind.

go and exert your body

and you get lost in that skill development

you will always win under those circumstances

@Darkness That is symptom management. I am talking about fixing the problem at its source. Symptom management buys you time only. The problem will return if you don't fix it.

^

it prepares you

at the very least

to make the transition more obtainable

at least in my exp

yea, the meditation for sure

I just recommend everyone to Ajahn Brahm. Decades of videos of his talks, very simple, somewhat repetitive, but strictly original buddhism.

I didn't know how to do it properly

we're so distracted it's difficult

Theravadan buddhism works, and with none of the highly religious ritualistic gobbledeegook other cultures added on to it.

Learn to let go, and to be mindful.

Simple is what works.

Tao