Anneli Rufus

Journalist, message-in-bottle finder, and author of such books as Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto and Unworthy: How to Stop Hating Yourself.

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Halloween isn't just cheap thrills. It's exposure therapy -- and it forces us to learn the most gruelingly adult truths we'll ever know. My latest @PsychToday https://t.co/B19ydQf7Td

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We're publicly slinging our dislike at each other in ways that our ancestors could never do. It's sometimes fun and sometimes feels like justice, but is it erasing our empathy? My latest @PsychToday --

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My latest @PsychToday https://t.co/fwWTs69jBe

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Why is immaturity so fiercely, unforgivably loathed? Why is "Grow up" the worst insult that many people (including Amber Heard, apparently) can think of? I have my theories @PsychToday https://t.co/IHjY10kVft

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Maybe moping, within reason, will make us move on. The latest in my "Childish Adults" series @PsychToday . https://t.co/95fQqdhT6m

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The latest in my "childish adults" series @PsychToday. Bringing a bit of dignity to immaturity! https://t.co/v1m34kUR01

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@thingparty @PsychToday Now there's a subreddit that's totally new to me, and I spend more hours at Reddit every day than I want to admit!

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Does being told to "just grow up" crush you a little more each time, inside? My latest @PsychToday about being an involuntarily immature adult: https://t.co/i7DVV4DE3r

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@KevinBennettPhD I know! It's a whole new level of creepy.

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When true-crime fans kill: My latest @PsychToday: https://t.co/Yutr1m2acE

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With its deities, demons, symbols and sense of salvation, is social media now a strange, even dystopian spiritual path? My latest @PsychToday https://t.co/dWnskpyBoT

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How friendless do you feel? My latest @PsychToday https://t.co/XgA6GPeEFu

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Maybe we need to believe in ghosts. My latest @PsychToday: https://t.co/msL0OUniwc

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Self-hatred is so un-hip these days. My latest @PsychToday https://t.co/BOzYrvl9WX

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@sarma @oneluckypuppy Awww.

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Before even gaining a sense of self, some of us already saw ourselves as vectors. Did making your anxious parent(s) anxious make you anxious? My latest @PsychToday https://t.co/sADmMqYfpr

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Was your true self crushed and crunched into some hidden place by your all-powerful parents' wishes, needs and fears? My latest @PsychToday https://t.co/kKky1mVy2E

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@dneelo @PsychToday Thank you!!

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A lot fewer parents love their kids than we want to know. #CPTSD My latest @PsychToday https://t.co/QKE8YX1NTC

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@TurboDystopia @PsychToday Thank you! And don't you dare call it dreck. (Regarding your recent take on obscenity, I've often tried while watching b/w 1940s films to imagine their characters saying the F-word as frequently and as casually as characters do in current-day films.)