Family relations are complex indeed. When you have multiple generations of a family, there are bound to be multi-generational issues. The trickle-down of trauma can go from parent to child to child to child across decades of a family. New issues arise and old ones might transform into new ones, but either way, odds are …
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35 Memes for Stressed out Overthinkers Wishing They Could Mute Their Brains
We all have moments when we wish our brains worked like a television set. You could pause when you needed a break, fast forward when you’re thinking through upsetting scenarios, and rewind when you had a really good dream. It would save us so much anguish. But we might also be quick to abuse the …
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‘Don’t worry, we’ll get you a nose job’: Gen X and millennial daughters complain about the cruelty of boomer moms
As a culture, we have long come to accept that the Baby Boomer generation seems unique in their ability to be impolite and sling insults with little to no prompting. We don’t know if it’s the lifelong sense of entitlement or the lead exposure, but a lot of them are just plain mean—especially when it …
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‘She believes I inflicted trauma on her’: Mother hides daughter’s college acceptance and scholarship from her, accuses her of traumatizing her for being angry about it
«Trauma» can be a dime a dozen these days. There are a lot of people out there who will use traumatic experiences as an excuse for acting badly instead of doing to hard thing of working through said trauma. I think that’s one of the biggest problems with our modern conception of mental health. Identifying …
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Weekly Internet Roundup: Photoshopped Landings, Sydney Sweeney on ‘Hot Ones’, and Trauma Dumping on Elmo
Also: TikTok loses (some) music.
Self-Centered Starbucks Customer Gets Roasted for Trauma Dumping About Husband at the Drive Thru
While the experience of working with customers is a varied one, most fall under one of two different categories. First there are those who are respectful, and then there are all the rest who overstep the mark. There are numerous different ways in which retail and hospitality workers experience audacity from those they serve. Sometimes, …
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Greedy Family Demands Inheritance from Daughter They Refused to Support
Family drama can get messy. Throw any sort of inheritance issue into the mix and you have a recipe for disaster. Greed shouldn’t get in the way of familial relationships, but, unfortunately, people are money hungry by nature. I suppose that’s cynical; it’s just quite often true. In a post to the /r/amitheasshole subreddit, user …
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Puritan Claims Parents Shouldn’t Have Intercourse In The Same House As Their Kids
Do you ever think that the internet was a mistake? Does it ever cross your mind that perhaps teenagers shouldn’t be allowed to be on Twitter? Does the new pervasiveness of anti-sex puritanism amongst young people concern you? If you answered yes to any of those questions, have I got the Twitter main character for …
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15+ Anxiety Memes to Laugh About With Your Therapist This Week (May 5, 2023)
What’s more stressful? Something worrisome that already happened or something worrisome that’s never happened and you might have just fabricated the entire memory? Your therapist would tell you that the fabricated story, the thing you keep spinning out over that doesn’t actually exist, is a symptom of severe anxiety. Honey, the only thing severe about …
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15+ Anxiety Memes to Laugh About With Your Therapist This Week (April 28, 2023)
Have you ever had a brief moment of inner peace and then realized how overly chill you were? Well, as an anxietician, a professional anxious person, you’re obligated to shut that down right away. If your brain starts lulling into a calm state, you MUST start digging up memories of the past that will completely …
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