When you use the phrase "keep it together" for yourself or another person, what sort of unmanaged emotional regulation breakdown are you generally anticipating and trying to head off? (as in... giving in to fear, loss of composure, choking towards the end of a competition etc)
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Letting my inner child emotionally vomit all over someone who is also probably struggling with their own emotional baggage
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Typical “loss of composure” for myself, especially when faced with racism
Had a few times cops would question if I was “lost” and understood calling them out would be a lost cause
Multiple times have had VC’s assume I was the CTO and my white founder was the CEO
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Super hard to describe now that I'm currently not in that state, but it's like we're on a collision course with a black hole, and you're the only one who's seeing it, and nobody else has any fucking idea that we're all going to die soon, and you're this close from telling them.
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Tfw you really want to schedule a rain date with your tear ducts but they insist that now is the time for a full-on waterfall
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When you’re on the verge of lapsing into non-functionality but nothing about the crisis will actually get better by doing that so you have to power through
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