[ SECRET POST #2566 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2566 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I just don't understand how this kind of "just suck it up/man up" is seen as the mature thing to say to people with emotional problems in some cultures. To me it seems like... "shove your dirt under the rug. There, out of sight, out if mind!"

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[(Anonymous)]

To be fair, my parents were both fantastic in every other respect. But they're both in the more physical side of healthcare and have never worked with mental patients or done anything in the mental health field, nor do either of them work with children. I've been like this since the age of four, so I think they assumed it was an attention-seeking behavior I never grew out of. A lot of the comments were along the lines of the thread directly above--"drama queen," "pity party," and the like. It also didn't help that, in elementary school, I had a teacher who reacted to it in a way that I now realize was abusive.

But my parents weren't bad parents.

[(Anonymous)]

In some cases, it does work. I used to have anxiety problems, and what got me over them was sucking it up and doing the thing that I was anxious about and then realizing that in fact nothing bad happened when I did it. Looking back on it, I was basically doing a sort of CBT without even realizing it or knowing what that was.

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Cock-ball torture?

[(Anonymous)]

Google is a wonderful thing. But I know, I lol as a kinkster when I see it in professional contexts.

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Cognitive behavioral therapy

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Sucking it up is always the first thing to try else we'd all be weeping everywhere. Maturity helps. But of course that doesn't always work, and it's goddamn enraging when people assume we didn't try that.

Panic attacks are treated best with pills and/or controlled exposure to what makes us panic.

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*and of course, depending on whether it's a cause or not, the introduction of feeling safer, more validated, cared for.