How to be more emotionally intelligent (without trying so hard)
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Can we STOP promoting LASIK like it's some miracle cure? No one should be getting LASIK, it's INCREDIBLY fucking dangerous. The industry LIED to consumers about its safety. I am LEGALLY FUCKING BLIND after LASIK. I have friends who have attempted suicide bc of LASIK!
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I've been feeling very under-nourished in my male friendships recently
Thread on dearth of emotional investment in platonic male friendships
This thread is fucking wild
My stance on euthanasia is really one of those things that I’ve started questioning a lot over the past few years. Grew up with it sort of being liberal common sense (which, well, says a lot) but you read how it’s actually being deployed and damn..
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I was studying child development, & when a parent or adult hits a kid throughout their childhood, they can end up developing a dissociative disorder in adulthood. A child cannot physically escape abuse majority of the time, so they mentally go else where and detach mentally in…
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Dr. Nicole LePera on Twitter
At the foundation of dysfunctional family dynamics is denial. Everyone must remain in denial to keep the relationships going. Waking up would mean we have to mourn the story of our family in favor of the truth.— Dr. Nicole LePera (@Theholisticpsyc) November 25, 2022
Dr. Nicole LePera on Twitter
Childhood trauma doesn’t just come from what you experience, it’s also about what you don’t experience. Here’s some examples:— Dr. Nicole LePera (@Theholisticpsyc) October 11, 2022
Tyler Alterman on X: "What is a journaling prompt with the power of potentially taking people from low agency to high agency? eg “What would you work on if you had no fear?" / X
What is a journaling prompt with the power of potentially taking people from low agency to high agency?eg “What would you work on if you had no fear?— Tyler Alterman (@TylerAlterman) March 26, 2024
Visakan Veerasamy on Twitter / X
replies are a great example of how health is invisible to the healthy https://t.co/DIXv7cS6Eh— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) February 3, 2024
Barry on Twitter / X
Growing up I remember having a lot of social anxiety around strangers and feeling awful about it, it was a personal failure, something was wrong with me - just very shythen I tried phenibut when I was 19 and it instantly *fixed it*— Barry (@TheGrandBlooms) March 3, 2024
Visakan Veerasamy on Twitter / X
time and time again i keep finding that pooping is one of the best analogies for talking about emotion. i hesitate to use it because it's a bit gross, but ime it almost always gets the point across simply and clearly— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) January 13, 2024
Nick on X: "absurdly tentative scratch-notepad awakening stage theory, don't take too seriously 1. hint: you hear that awareness might be worth studying, meditation is a thing, you don't know what it's for, people say it can change things. todo: do practice, try things 2. clue: you take a…" / X
mbrock on Twitter / X
"depression stems from a sense that one is not progressing towards any meaningful goal that can increase our social acceptance"hmm that's a pretty good formulation https://t.co/sB4Ai4DdZm— mbrock (@meekaale) November 22, 2023
Jennine on Twitter
Feel like I can share my story about BetterHelp. During a particularly dark time and being affected by Israeli lobbyist attacks on me and my livelihood, feeling paralysed, lost, I signed up to trial online therapy. How BetterHelp works is that it (cont.) https://t.co/HbUrMehDdB— Jennine (@jennineak) October 11, 2023
cam on X
Anxiety is so fucking embarrassing . Oh noooo what if something happens. Jesus christ
Visakan Veerasamy on Twitter
here's a 10-minute attempt to summarize my 300 page book @introspectVV into ~500 words. didn't precisely meet the brief of "in one breath" but i'll try again multiple times pic.twitter.com/vdOSJt2DHf— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) June 14, 2023
Alexander Chee on Twitter
Often when you don’t want to be your mother or father, there’s something you’re trying to escape you can’t otherwise name.— Alexander Chee (@alexanderchee) June 14, 2023
Visakan Veerasamy on Twitter
working harder, getting increasingly heated/angry, past a threshold where its not working, will typically make things worse. everything gets more knotted and tense. overwhelming the bottleneck https://t.co/EP69fo5ZwE— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) June 9, 2023
You Might Be Autistic on Twitter
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Yishan on Twitter
I’m going to talk about therapy.The world needs more high-profile people to talk about it, help normalize it, explain why it’s good, and remove the stigma surrounding it. I have what, like 70k followers? That’s enough to start getting the message out there.— Yishan (@yishan) November 5, 2022
𝖙𝖆𝖍𝖓𝖎𝖆♡𝖇𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 on Twitter
Make a timeline. Write down all the major events that have happened to you from 2012 - now. It’ll help your psyche grasp all that has happened these last 10 years. It’ll feel grounding, and it could help you decide how you want to move forward.— 𝖙𝖆𝖍𝖓𝖎𝖆♡𝖇𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 (@brujabitchh) November 2, 2022
Dr. Nicole LePera on Twitter
Narcissistic parents demand their children define their sense of self worth. The pressure is an invisible chain the child carries while doing anything to get love from their parent who doesn’t even love themselves.— Dr. Nicole LePera (@Theholisticpsyc) October 19, 2022
Dr. Nicole LePera on Twitter
If you were “mature for their age” you might have been parentified. Parentification is when a child is made to fill an adult role. This is an “invisible” trauma that has life long impact. HERE’S WHY: 🧵— Dr. Nicole LePera (@Theholisticpsyc) October 16, 2022
Parentification is an extremely common family dynamic where children are expected to: manage their parents emotions or issues (most common is marital problems), take care of the home & siblings on a regular basis, or act as a peer to a parent.
Children adapt quickly to this role. They learn they must betray their own needs, desires, & emotions to keep the connection to a parent.
Many children feel a fierce sense of loyalty to the parent thats parentifying them.
They want to fix, rescue, & protect that parent. It’s a true role reversal.
Naomi Fisher on Twitter
The use of fear to control children is so ubiquitous that most adults don’t even realise they are doing it. They’d never describe what they are doing that way. But in so many different ways, the children feel it. Here’s what it looks like. 1/— Naomi Fisher (@naomicfisher) October 14, 2022
Dr. Nicole LePera on Twitter
Witnessing your parents have a dysfunctional marriage has a deep impact. You didn’t learn open communication, emotional support, or healthy ways to get your needs met. As an adult, learning these skills should be a priority.— Dr. Nicole LePera (@Theholisticpsyc) October 15, 2022
Crinkle Speaks on Twitter
🧵Thread; I see a lot of confusion regarding why this therapist was fired. Here are some considerations - including the APA's Code of Ethics which she was professionally responsible for adhering. https://t.co/ED0zE17md9— Crinkle Speaks (@CrinkleSpeaks) August 21, 2022
Dr. Ashley S. Castro on Twitter
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What everyone needs to know about 988 👇🏽
(RT to literally save a life)”