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Feb 23, 2024 · Gaslighting occurs in toxic, unhealthy relationships, and psychologists highlight these common phrases as red flags to further emotional trauma.
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- Gaslighting
- Traumatized
- Triggered
- Narcissist
- Love-Bombing
- Toxic
- Grooming
- Trauma-Bond
- Antisocial
- Trauma-Dumping
Perhaps the most often misconstrued word of the past few years, “gaslighting” has been widely adopted as a way to describe any act that’s insensitive, a lie, or simply a difference of opinion. “I hear it all the time,” says Elisa Martinez, a psychotherapist based in California. “People often use it in this accusatory way—maybe the person who’s ‘gas...
You tripped and fell in front of a bunch of people? How traumatizing! But therapists would prefer you use a more precise term, like embarrassing, mortifying, shocking, or upsetting. Trauma is “a serious, often chronic physiological disruption of the nervous system,” Martinez says. People with posttraumatic stress disorder(PTSD), for example, can ex...
The word “triggered” has become a common way to express feeling offended or shocked. (A recent search on Reddit revealed that people were triggered by a celebrity’s red-carpet dress, slow walkers, and a bad scene in an animated movie.) In its truest sense, however, being triggered means encountering a reminder of a traumatic experience, followed by...
One of the internet’s favorite diagnoses is that someone is a narcissist—which has become shorthand for anyone who appears self-centered or entitled. The term is “thrown around so carelessly,” says Jacquelyn Tenaglia, a licensed mental health counselor based in Boston. “I see narcissism being especially misapplied when it’s used to label someone wh...
Say two people are newly dating, and one is lavishing the other with gifts and compliments. When someone makes grand gestures to the object of their affection, bystanders can be quick to call it “love-bombing”—though actually, it could be totally normal excitement. “Love-bombing is inundating somebody with love and affection, either to make up for ...
People tend to attach “toxic” to anything or anyone they find upsetting. (Your boss is toxic, the barista who makes you wait 15 minutes is toxic, that pop star’s fandom is definitely toxic.) But Torres-Mackie prefers to use it to describe truly abusive situations in which someone intentionally causes harm. “If somebody in your life causes severe em...
Some politicians use this term—inaccurately and dangerously—to spread anti-LGBTQ misinformation, which then circulates on social media. It’s also misused elsewhere online. People on the internet have started declaring that any older person dating a younger one is “grooming” them. But determining if that’s the case requires more nuance than a comput...
People often assume that trauma-bonding “is when two people share with each other their experiences of trauma, and that brings them closer,” Torres-Mackie says. Having a word to describe such scenarios would be helpful—but it’s not this one. According to mental-health experts, trauma-bonding actually refers to the connection or attachment between a...
Don’t feel like going to a party? Fair, but it would probably be incorrect to label yourself “antisocial.” The term is often colloquially used to indicate a lack of desire to be around other people, but it actually refers to a personality disorderassociated with repeatedly disregarding and violating the rights of others. “It’s marked by criminal be...
A good venting session is lots of things: affirming, a relief, the way two people might bond. But pouring your heart out to a friend about all the hard things you’re dealing with isn’t necessarily “trauma-dumping”—a term popularized on TikTok. The actual definition of this trendy term is “sharing specific details about a traumatic experience with s...
Aug 21, 2016 · 80. Two adjectives come to my mind for a person who uses excessive foul language: 1) crass. having or showing no understanding of what is proper or acceptable; rude and insensitive (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crass) 2) vulgar (as you used in the title of your own question)
- “Gay” Dismissing someone or something as “gay” is an insult to anyone with a homosexual orientation, because you’re essentially using the word “gay’ to mean “bad” or to refer to something you don’t like.
- “You ____ like a girl.” The reason why this phrase deserves to die is its implied message that women are weaker than men. And while men generally build bulky muscle more readily than women, the testosterone responsible for that doesn’t make them stronger where it really counts.
- “Retarded” The words “mentally retarded” were once commonly used to refer to people with a below-average IQ, either because of a congenital condition like Down Syndrome or because of a brain injury.
- “N*gger / N*gga” It is never okay for a non-African-American person to use this word. Ever. I don’t care if you feel like you’ve earned the right to use that word as a playful tease.
Sep 13, 2016 · In short, bad words are powerful—emotionally, physiologically, psychologically and socially. And because profanity is powerful, it behaves differently from other types of language.
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Jul 15, 2010 · What can the connection between “curse,” “swear,” “cuss” and “profanity” tell us about all the words we aren’t supposed to say, yet say with great frequency? Cursing vs. cussing. Placing a curse obviously isn’t the same as uttering curse words, but both concepts start with the Christian Church.
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Mar 24, 2017 · Profanity, the use of offensive and rude words, is naturally a controversial topic. There is some debate about what profanity reveals about a person’s character, more specifically, whether it is...
