I firmly believe that many people carry much stronger emotions than they show to almost anyone, including themselves, and it's super fucked up how much emotional suppression we need to engage in in order to appear normal, calm, sane, and happy to ourselves and others.
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We - perhaps correctly! - believe that others can't handle our emotions, that they would freak out, get angry, try to caretake us because they'd feel like bad people if they didn't, etc. We don't want to burden them or worry them or annoy them, so... we don't.
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Conversely, how do you affirm other people's emotions, recognizing they arent handling it skillfully, without enabling their delusions?
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imo emotional ownership mostly solves the object level problem of people getting triggered by eachothers stuff, but its not enough. Each n-gon must take ownership of its own stuff
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yes, very complicated, lots to do after learning how to feel! lots of stories about who or what is to blame for the feelings
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