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@milo @_p @realcaseyrollins Yeah. This is why it is important to be able to re-examine your beliefs every so often, so that you can find out which ones are working for you to keep and which ones aren't, so that you can either tweak them or discard them in favour of something else.
Never say "could it get worse"

A few months ago I was like "could my life get any worse" and then we got coronavirus. A month ago I'm like "I doubt 2020 could get any worse" and now look where we are
@realcaseyrollins Yeah, this is where I plan to start. I can't change the world, society or other people, but I can make the decisions for myself. I can learn how to be healthy and to be that example, so that I can have healthy relationships with my own family. I think it starts with how you relate to yourself, and then you can have healthy relationships with your own family and friends, and others you get close to. But you have to be selective. It's a two-way street, all the healthy relationship stuff can't be one-sided. I hope that you are able to find a woman you can have a healthy relationship with and pass that onto your children.
@realcaseyrollins @sim @_p if that's all they ever know? it's often assumed to be normal until later in life, if circumstances change.
@realcaseyrollins @sim @_p

There's a very real form of child abuse that's created by mental illness. Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy.
@realcaseyrollins @sim @_p to us looking down from the nosebleeds? Yeah. To the abusive single mother who only ever knew the pain and trauma? it's a day in the park.
@sim @_p @realcaseyrollins That's the crap part about the mind. It's easy to pick things up and never remember the context around why it's a good or bad thing to have.
@milo @_p @realcaseyrollins Yeah. Honestly, I feel like this was drilled into me but it's been hard to pinpoint where I picked it up. Also, who would gain from me hating myself? Deep question time...
@realcaseyrollins @_p @sim i mean if you think about it, teaching good morals is sometimes traumatic, because it's usually in response to doing the wrong thing.
@realcaseyrollins @sim @_p

It's more a malicious discipline that hijacks the same methods of teaching good morals.

> Kids are like little sponges, absorbing all the information around them and trying to make sense of it.
@realcaseyrollins @crunklord420 @comicbot It's a depiction of what happens when you play Team Fortress 2. If it isn't funny to you, it's because it isn't funny.
@realcaseyrollins @_p @Lainyboy You know, I did wonder what was happening there. But like you say, I can see that if you have that message drilled into you then it would be very limiting. I do hope that things change for future generations. There must be a way to have a generation of healthy people who have healthy relationships with others around them.
@sim @_p @realcaseyrollins internalization of guilt, or even hatred has to either breed from trauma, and/or brainwashing by drilling that guilt or hatred into them
@milo @_p @realcaseyrollins Yeah. Also, if white people didn't internalise then I don't think white guilt would hold so much sway in the public opinion. Internalising is one tactic that humans have to help them survive situations they are in, especially when they don't have control over what is happening to them. It is worse for little children who hold even less control compared to the adults around them.
@_p @Lainyboy @realcaseyrollins To be honest, I don't envy the position of being police. It must be a very stressful job. It would also attract some of the worst people out there, who look to abuse others or have power over them.
@realcaseyrollins @_p @sim

Oh one other thing i hear get thrown a lot is as such. Think this one was from a [[white]] journo:

"White people containerize, Black people Internalize"

That line always came off as BS to me, since control of emotion is dictated by discipline and conscious control.

Mainly think that because I remember a time as a kid where strong emotion could just let loose, as I simply had no comprehension on how to temper them.

As for traumatic events though, all people internalize. It just seems to be a matter of what kind of event.

Yo I forgot it's June

Pride month for LGBT peeps, shame month for straight people and Christians

@milo @Lainyboy @_p @realcaseyrollins I think you've hit the nail on the head with that. I was sad to find out that young blacks are getting gaslit into burning their own towns down. Like they don't already have a lot of problems and poverty to deal with, now black business owners are being held back after making a difference in their neighbourhoods and it'll be harder to have investment in those areas because they are deprived and it isn't considered safe.
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