• OpenStars@discuss.online
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    6 days ago

    If you’ve been trained to ignore your emotions (e.g. by gaslighting parental figures), then this is retraining towards a more healthy endpoint.

    • Elting@piefed.social
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      6 days ago

      Yeah you are right, but at some point we all have to reckon with how we feel. Your emotions live with you and you can’t keep that distance forever. It should give one pause to think if they are incapable of valuing their own emotional state at the same level as they do someone else’s.