Your Mind Isn't Broken — It’s Running Old Software

Why You Glitch, Freeze, or Self-Sabotage — How It Affects Your Mental Health— and How to Change It

Have you ever noticed how your phone or laptop starts acting strange when too many programs are running in the background?

It slows down. It freezes. It struggles with simple tasks.

There’s nothing “wrong” with the device — it’s just overwhelmed by processes you can’t see.

Your mind works the exact same way. And once you understand this, everything changes.

You can finally stop torturing yourself that shameful story — the one that says:

• “I should try harder.”

• “What’s wrong with me?”

• “Why can’t I just get it together?”

Because the truth is far kinder, and far more accurate:

You’re not failing. Your system is simply overloaded by hidden subroutines.

What Do I Mean By "Subroutines"?

(And Why They Run Your Life)

Think of subroutines as the subconscious mind’s version of background programs running on a computer:

Invisible scripts. Old code. Protective patterns written when you were young.

Examples include:

• “Keep everyone happy so you can stay safe.”

• “Stay small so you don’t draw fire.”

• “Other people’s emotions matter more than mine.”

• “If someone is upset, I must fix it.”

• “My needs only matter if and when everyone else is taken care of.”

You didn’t choose these "programs" consciously. They're the result of a very loving, very loyal, very creative subconscious, picking up context clues in chaos, and using that information to avert danger and to help you survive--by any means necessary.

And just like hidden computer processes, these background processes run quietly, but constantly underneath everything:

• draining energy

• hijacking choices

• overriding your intentions

• slowing you down

• causing overwhelm

• spiking anxiety

• affecting your mental health

This is why willpower fails. This is why you "know better" but keep doing the same thing over and over. This is why it feels like something inside keeps sabotaging you: you’re trying to override default code that you didn't even know existed.

Why You Freeze, Shut Down, or Self-Sabotag

When your conscious mind wants something, but your "subroutine" (your subconscious) believes that action is unsafe, your system begins to fight itself.

Your conscious mind says:“I want to set a boundary.”

The subroutine says: “Boundaries are selfish and scary. People will get mad.”

And you freeze.

It looks like procrastination. It feels like self-sabotage. But it’s actually a safety mechanism, like a governor on the gas pedal of a U-Haul truck that stops you from pushing the engine too hard when the truck is full and under load.

Your subconscious system is trying to protect you from what it believes will create pain, or hurt you. This is not weakness. It is loyalty.

Your subconscious is always working for you. ALWAYS. It will always give you what it "thinks" you want or need. Unfortunately, it's powerful, and loyal, and hardworking, and creative, but it isn't always smart which is why it's better when you're consciously in control.

How?

The trick is discovering the current programming, becoming aware of how you're  (consciously or unconsciously) reinforcing the behaviours you do NOT want, consciously changing that pattern, and taking back the reins on this runaway stagecoach.

Your Mind Isn’t Mysterious — It’s "Mechanical"

Think of your subconscious like an operating system. When a device glitches, you don’t lecture it. You don’t call it lazy. You don’t say, “Try harder!” Or shame it.

You understand there’s a system overload.

But when YOU glitch emotionally, you blame yourself.

Here’s the truth you were never taught:

Your emotions, reactions, and patterns are system outputs, warning messages that something is hinky, not personal failings.

You don’t need more discipline. You need updated code.

What Subroutine Rewrites Actually Do

This is the heart of what I do at Triumph Hypnosis:

Not coping. Not “positive thinking.” Not forcing change through willpower.

But rewriting the outdated subroutine so your system finally aligns with the life you're choosing to live now — not the one you survived.

And when the code shifts, everything shifts:

• You stop absorbing other people’s emotions.

• You stop abandoning yourself.

• Boundaries feel natural, not terrifying.

• Motivation returns.

• Anxiety loses its grip.

• You stop shrinking to earn connection.

• You stop “glitching” during conflict.

Most importantly:

Your mind stops trying to solve adult struggles by using the helpless, powerless tools of childhood .

This Is Why the Work Is So Life-Changing

The moment you understand that your mind operates like software, you can finally stop blaming yourself and start updating the system.

You can stop saying: “I’m the problem.”

And start saying: “My code needs rewriting.”

And that shift — that single moment of clarity —is the beginning of emotional freedom.

Final Thought

It's all programming, Baby!

Your mind was never malfunctioning. It was never weak. It was never broken.

It was protecting you with outdated strategies from an outdated world.

You now have the tools to update the system. You get to write the new code.

And I promise you —nothing in you is beyond repair. It is all up-datable. All re-writable. All transformable.

This is the healing. This is the path. This is what your life can look like.