• kshade@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    ITT: People who apparently never had an intrusive thought getting awfully judgy about someone’s immediate feelings.

    Decency is to not act on negative emotions and impulses, not never having them.

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      On the other hand, the act of sharing this response without also sharing a method of resolution and/or a framing or context that makes it a passing feeling and not a “harsh reality about current society” or whatever your brain will try to attach to, just provides miserable people yet another rumination topic to get lost down.

      For healthy adults, you learn how to manage or avoid rumination. For people without social experience, without a healthy level of emotional intelligence, and especially without good, involved parenting, a young mind can take a post like this and just get absolutely lost down the rabbit-hole of negative validation. Seeing someone in the community you connect with sharing a feeling that your already depressed brain can latch onto is a recipe for depressive contagions.

      Get your teenagers off the internet people.

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        That is true, neither shaming people for how they might feel in the moment nor sharing it without context is great or helpful.