[THREAD] TOXIC POSITIVITY MAKES ME BELLIGERENT
I just need to see someone saying "You got this" to SOMEONE ELSE to make me want to punch someone.
Reminds me of times when I wasn't coping AT ALL and I was told I can handle it.
Reminds me of times when I wasn't coping AT ALL and I was told I can handle it.
No, I don't want to hear about how that saying works for YOU. I am in a bad mood.
Don't tell me "Everything will be OK" either. It makes me NOT TRUST YOU. If you have such an overblown sense of your own prophetic skills, you're out of touch with reality, and I can't rely on you to be sensible.
You can say, "I hope everything will be OK," or "At this stage, it looks like it will probably be OK, so let's hope it stays that way," or "I'm going to do what I can to make sure it's OK" because that's REALISTIC. There's comfort in that.
You know when a reassurance like "You're doing OK" makes sense? When you're trying to paint a wall or learn a dance sequence and you're not sure that it's correct, so you need validation to be able to persist.
Even the infamous "You got this" is survivable in that context.
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