i really think too much introspection is a disease, one that has really sunk its teeth into millennials/gen-z. i see it all the time: people who get addicted to therapy because they love talking about themselves, people constantly engaged in insipid self-reflection, obsessed with their horoscopes, consuming nothing but self-help literature/content, constantly checking their sleep quality/food/water apps. when does self-care and “self-mythologizing” become garden variety narcissism
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The social standard this culture offers is one of controlled, placated solitude. Its narrative often insists that you’re surrounded by toxic people who are trying to hurt you, and the only way to ever become the person you’re meant to be is to cut them all off, retreat into a high-gloss cocoon of talk therapy and Notion templates, and emerge a non-... See more
rayne fisher-quann • No Good Alone
Nobody Has A Personality Anymore
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We’re isolated, listless, burnt out on screens, cutting loved ones out like tumors in the spirit of “boundaries,” failing to understand other people’s choices or even our own.
Amanda Montell • The Age of Magical Overthinking
I see in so much of therapy culture young people desperate to be loved and trying to train themselves out of it. I see so much abandonment pain. We are reparenting ourselves. We are self-soothing. We are healing our inner child. Nobody is asking why. Please will somebody step in and say to this generation that maybe they don’t need more self-love,
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