TherapySpeak is one of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse when it comes to relationship issues. I don't think people understand just how insidious it is. Whenever I hear a client describe his wife or a girl he's been seeing talk this way, I know a bad outcome is imminent.
In TherapyTalkLand, if you felt bad, you were abused. Any discomfort you feel - even if it is simply due to your own dysfunction or anxiety - is in fact justifiable grounds to punish or abandon the other person. They are responsible for everything you feel, and if you don't feel good all the time, it is their fault.
It basically eliminates trust and good faith, as it reframes tension - which is how relationships grow and experience breakthroughs - as narcissistic injury. Self-confrontation and vulnerability are inverted and weaponized as signs you are being manipulated.
In other words, it is gaslighting. But what makes TherapyTalk so much worse than regular gaslighting is that the therapy "brand" has given it legitimacy and authority.
It is not your frame vs her frame anymore. It is your frame vs "the experts." There is no difference of perspectives to negotiate, you are simply a bad person. Clinically.
So much of the romantic problems we are facing as a society today are downstream of therapists encouraging entitled and self-destructive behavior, and this language is a core part of how they proliferate the mind virus. I can't tell you how much I hate most of them.
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‼️HELP NEEDED‼️
Sometimes the best-laid plans go wrong. A law intended to protect disabled North Carolinians is harming the very people it was designed to help.
This is my friend Morgan. She has cerebral palsy, is 100% disabled, and depends on her mother Rose for full-time care.
Rose can do this thanks to the Innovations program, which compensates caregivers for leaving full-time jobs to provide full-time care for loved ones.
Sadly, Rose was recently diagnosed with an aortic aneurysm and does not expect to survive.
While planning Morgan’s future care and guardianship, Rose discovered that HB543 prevents her oldest daughter from stepping up as guardian and receiving benefits after Rose passes.
That means Morgan’s sister would have to work a full-time job, hire care for Morgan, and raise her own two children.
This law wasn’t intended to harm families with disabled children, but that’s exactly what’s happening.
Rose reached out to the NCGA, but they said no new business can be handled in the short session. Rose and Morgan may not have until the long session in January. They need help right now.
Please tell the NCGA that one sentence stands in the way of Morgan receiving the same continuous care from the family that loves her.
Tell them to have a heart and fix HB543 now! 🙏🏼
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As we’ve looked into doing things like polos etc over the past 6 months, we’ve been trying to find a way to use American grown, American sewn cotton products.
Thus far the feedback we’ve received is that it’s impossible, and I just refuse to accept this.
We’re still searching, and have some calls lined up, but if anyone out there has any contacts or suggestions of folks we could visit with, I’d love to talk to them.
Please feel free to shoot me a DM if you have anyone who you think could help with this.
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It is called ACR, and it has been running since you set the TV up.
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