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@incomplete1511 @RespectfulMemes @aj_arciniegas Admittedly I don't actually know that much about cats. Maybe they would text back. You prefer cats or dogs (have become v bonded to a sweet and gentle cockerpoo recently - didn't know much about dogs till a year with him)

@SearchingTLight @RespectfulMemes @aj_arciniegas I fully understand you. you need to fully understand me. My cats love me enough to respond back.obsessed people who care want attention ,and you give it to them if you actually love them .

@RebelSpiritTM 🙏

The model in mental health is changing. The era of "faulty brain chemistry" is over, the hypotheses debunked, the drugs needlessly dangerous. We're moving to a more compassionate understanding that bad things happen to people and they suffer emotionally and physically as a result

yes its called ptsd and cptsd, we know this.

Admittedly plagiarised from these two x.com/i/status/20524…

Cats vrs Dogs

@incomplete1511 @RespectfulMemes @aj_arciniegas Ha, some truth there. I was just suggesting if you had a need and text them, they probably wouldn't be concerned (and might not bother texting back, as the orig post suggested) 😂

@SearchingTLight @RespectfulMemes @aj_arciniegas WORNG! how many times does ANYONE actually have to change the fucking WATERRRR..? 2 times a week tops .same with my dogs.or as needed. MY POINT was they act like obsessive girlfriends who want my attention because I know they don’t need no fuckin water BRAHH

@Decayedlov 🙂🙏

Two people can love each other and still fail. One needed reassurance. One needed peace. One kept asking. One kept withdrawing. Love was there. Understanding wasn’t.

@Decayedlov @eyojoel77 🙏

@eyojoel77 When someone consistently dismisses, deflects, or turns your concerns against you, speaking up can start to feel emotionally unsafe rather than productive.

People lack accountability, then be like "You could've just talked to me". No, I couldn't. You don't listen. You deflect. You gaslight. You make me feel like i'm the problem for bringing it up. So no, i stayed silent to protect my peace, not because I didn't want to fix.

@SKisAFK @eyojoel77 100%

@eyojoel77 Some people don’t want honesty. They want access to you without having to change anything. So every conversation turns into defending yourself instead of actually fixing the issue. After a while, silence feels easier.

@gaialogs I know this deeply!

people who lack integrity, consideration and empathy know how to imitate these things when it benefits them. trust your instinct the moment you see their mask slip.

MISERABLE PEOPLE start drama UNPROVOKED!!!!

@RespectfulMemes @BadSeedBooks Ha, like this!

@incomplete1511 @RespectfulMemes @aj_arciniegas Yeah, but that's about them, not you 😂

@RespectfulMemes @aj_arciniegas My cats love me..I never understood this about cats😂..all 4 would be blowing my shit the FUUUUCK up people..”we need the water changed” and we left you some 5 dead mice …where are all yall getting these cats from 😂😂

@TheGingerRoot96 @forallcurious 100%. Thanks for sharing (I have CPTSD)

@forallcurious CPTSD. I have it. Author Peter Levine has great books detailing the trauma and how to deal with it. Peter Walker’s ‘The Tao of Fully Feeling’ is good. Anything by Gabor Mate. I can’t recommend the book below enough for people dealing with childhood trauma.

🚨: Brain scans have revealed children living with unstable families (excessive, arguing, abusive and neglectful) have brain changes similar to combat soldiers after active duty

@BadSeedBooks @Ryan_Daigler This resonates (even if I wasn't setting the neighborhood on fire). It's absolutely never about them (all about control and an absence of real empathy)

@Ryan_Daigler In elementary school, my brother used to go around setting the neighborhood on fire. So my mother took him to a shrink. The shrink said-- in not so many words-- she was the problem, not him. She never took him back.

The scapegoat child usually starts off perfectly healthy — full of potential, resilience, and their own personality. But the narcissistic parent cannot tolerate that because it threatens their fragile ego and false narrative of superiority. So they begin a cycle of systematic stress and sabotage: —Constant criticism, arguing, shaming —Sleep disruption, manufactured chaos, and emotional whiplash. —Isolating the child from support, so no one can validate their experience. —Gaslighting and projection, making the child feel like they’re “the problem.” Over time, the child develops complex PTSD, anxiety, depression, and other trauma-related struggles — not because they were flawed, but because they were ABUSED INTO THAT STATE. Cont.