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What’s it called when instead of being feeling sad you start looking at the world more broadly and breaking down circumstances leading up to you being sad as frivolous things that don’t matter in the end until you eventually feel absolutely nothing?
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Anonymous 20h

Intellectualizing your emotions. While there are reasons to do so, it can also lead to people obliterating their emotions which is bad

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Anonymous 20h

Like “I shouldn’t be sad on my birthday. Birthdays are just a thing humans insisted were important but they don’t really matter because it’s just a concept we invented. And being sad is just chemical responses, not something I have to acknowledge.”

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Anonymous 13h

I think it’s called a potentially harmful coping mechanism

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