sometimes i’ll be like actually i’m not overly self-critical at all and i have plenty of self-esteem :) i’m very healthy mentally 🩷 and then like ten minutes later my brain decides I’m a Terrible Person and Everyone Hates Me Which is Justified and I Should Shut Up Forever
I watched the new Pixar film Elemental tonight and I BAWLED. Anything with a daddy/daughter story line gets me right in the daddy issues. Omg I was sobbing
I've served my time as golden child & scapegoat kid and now I'm lost/forgotten child and I'm feeling quite relaxed
After years of close scrutiny I can finally blend in with the wallpaper and do so many things unnoticed and unquestioned
I shape their image of me into something that benefits me, showing only what I want them to see. Then they're satisfied and so am I because I can do what I want as long as I have a lie to go with it. Do disapproved thing, pretend to have done an approved thing, and just like that I'm a good child. ✨ Freedom ✨
I do see now where that "jeopardized personality development"/"signs of personality pathology" thing came from because how am I ever going to form any heathy relationship with anyone like this lmao. But considering my therapists seemed to think that it'll magically course correct we're just going to go with that
he says i hate everyone except you and that is addictive and that is kind of romantic and beautiful because you're young and you're kind of a sarcastic asshole too and you don't like bad boys, per say, but you don't really like good ones either. and you like that you were the exception, it felt like winning.
except life is not a romance book, and he was kind of being honest. he doesn't learn to be nice to your friends. he only tolerates your family. you have to beg him to come with you to birthday parties, he complains the whole time. you want to go on a date but - people are often there, wherever you're going. he's just so angry. about everything, is the thing. in the romance book, doesn't he eventually soften? can't you teach him, through your own sense of whimsy and comfort?
at first - you know introverts often need smaller friend groups, and honestly, you're fine staying at home too. you like the small, tidy life you occupy. you're not going to punish him for his personality type.
except: he really does hate everyone but you. which means he doesn't get along with his therapist. which means he has no one to talk to except for you. which means you take care of him constantly, since he otherwise has no one. which means you sometimes have to apologize for him. which means he keeps you home from seeing your friends because he hates them. you're the single exception.
about a decade from this experience, you'll type into google: how to know if a relationship is codependent.
he wraps an arm around you. i hate everyone except you. these days, you're learning what he's actually confessing is i have very little practice being kind.
I recently had to do a project in one of my psych classes, and man, I knew that CBT was used for every little thing, but seeing over and over, "do CBT! CBT is the best for every mental illness!" was so jarring. I'm absolutely biased because of my own experiences, but I just don't think it's as universal a treatment model as it's touted.
If you didn't benefit from CBT, it's not because you're lazy or didn't try hard enough or lacked intelligence or foresight into your own needs. Frankly, it's a therapy model that (I think) shouldn't be the only readily-accessible model and among the only therapy models covered by insurance. Some of us should not be treated in a CBT model and that's okay. It's not a sign of poor character or unreasonable demands, and if you don't think it's a model that works for you, then it's your right to express that!
Tim only told Jason that Jason had been cleaning up Gotham the ‘easy way’ is because Tim knows for a fact how easy killing is. He had his first kill before he was even 7 years old.
No one realizes this until Joker makes Tim “choose” between shooting one of two batfam members and Tim just picks up the gun without hesitation and shoots the Joker in just the right spot for it to be fatal but for it to not be an instant death.