I feel the same way. Acknowledge the depression, validate the anxiety but don’t lean into it. Its like my generation wants to wallow in their negatively for sake of validation. I get past generations wrongfully didn’t even acknowledge it. But why go from one extreme to the next?

My mothers mantra, helped me become one badass alcoholic, who is now 19 years clean and sober ✌️❤️

Yes @marwilliamson and it’s my life story as well

Not helpful if you end up feeling pressured beyond your limits. I have found the most helpful attitude to be of those, who simultaneously offered compassion and made it clear that my decisions were up to me alone.

What helped me is stopping trying to tell people how to live their lives and focus on my own life… how I could help them and not judge them for the choices they make.

That’s what my narcissist mother did to me. Invalidates every single feeling I ever had. Some folks need different things from friends.

HIGHLY RELATABLE

It’s a fine line. I know what you mean but … The unsympathetic can make suicide more likely in someone who is in the wrong headspace.

Doesn’t sound like something that would help us with cPTSD lol. Kindness and compassion are a safe space when triggered by old trauma. Perhaps there is a delineation to figure out the right timing for that approach?

you know psychology...you understand the immeasurable range of emotional trauma and situations that folks face your ...folk snapping me out of it is a real thing and can be helpful....the Army is built on this mentality only...look at how army folk fare when hit with crisis that