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The Ex
The Psychology Behind Digital Orbiting and Why It Keeps You Stuck THE GHOST WHO HAUNTS YOUR FEED 📱 You blocked them, unblocked them, muted them, unmuted them, and told yourself a hundred times that you would stop checking whether they viewed your Instagram stories, but every time you post something you find yourself scrolling through the viewer list with the specific anxiety of someone checking a pregnancy test, simultaneously hoping for and dreading the result, and when their name appears in the list which it almost always does because they watch everything you post with the faithful consistency of someone who is monitoring your life without participating in it, you feel a surge of validation so brief it barely registers before being replaced by the confusion and frustration of trying to understand what it means when someone who chose to leave your life continues watching you live it from the digital equivalent of a parked car across the street, close enough to observe but too far away to be reached, present enough to notice but absent enough to deny 😤
By The Curious Writer3 days ago in Humans
The Break
Even though the TV show 'Friends' has been off the air for over twenty years, there still remains an interesting discussion topic about whether Ross and Rachel were 'on a break' and whether his sleeping with another woman was cheating or not. You, the audience, will have to be familiar with the plot and characters to enjoy this dissection.
By Stephanie Van Orman3 days ago in Humans
What To Do When You Love Someone Who Can’t Love Back
It is one of the most emotionally complicated and painful situations a person can experience when he or she loves a person who will not love him or her back. It establishes a silent yet strong struggle between hope and reality. One side has deep emotional attachment and the other emotional absence or unavailability. This disproportion may cause longing, confusion, self-doubt and even emotional exhaustion.
By Mark Hipster3 days ago in Humans
How To Rebuild Trust After Betrayal Or Cheating
The most vulnerable, but crucial building block of any relationship is trust. The emotional blow of betraying or being cheated on can be devastating. It can be shocking, angry, sad, confused and insecure. It is not easy to build trust after such experience, and to some relationships, it is possible in case both partners are ready to involve themselves in honest, consistent, and emotionally mature healing works.
By Willian James3 days ago in Humans
Why Emotional Neglect Hurts More Than You Realize
Emotional neglect may be unseen, yet its consequences may be severe and lasting. Emotional neglect, unlike physical abuse or open conflict, is characterized by the lack of something rather than by doing. It takes place when emotional demands of attention, validation, empathy, and support are disregarded and not fulfilled. Since it is not that obvious, most of the people fail to realize it is harmful until its consequences start to determine their relationships, self-esteem and mental health.
By Willian James3 days ago in Humans
How To Recover After A Breakup Without Losing Your Identity
The process of a breakup may seem like an emotional tsunami. It trembles habits, interpersonal relations, self-perception, and future prospects simultaneously. To most individuals, the loss of a partner is not the worst thing at all, it is the loss of the sense of identity which was closely connected to the relationship. It is not impossible to come out of a break up without losing your identity, but it takes conscious effort to find your emotional strength, be aware of your emotions and give yourself time to heal.
By Willian James3 days ago in Humans
Healing After Loss: Grief, Acceptance, And Moving Forward
One of the greatest human experiences is the loss. The loss of someone we love, the loss of a relationship, the loss of a job, a significant life change, grief can change our worldview and self-image. The process of recovery following loss does not have a linear journey. It is a very personal experience and it entails grief, acceptance, emotion and finally learning how to move on and at the same time remembering the one that has been lost.
By Willian James3 days ago in Humans
How To Stop Overthinking And Calm Your Emotional Mind
One of the most tiresome mental habits that an individual can undergo is overthinking. It is able to make a mountain out of a molehill, repeat the same mistake over and over again, and cause anxiety about matters that have not even occurred yet. Overthinking turns into a habit, resulting in insomnia, anxiety, and inability to concentrate on things or enjoy life. To be mentally clear, emotionally balanced and generally healthy, it is imperative to learn how to quit overthinking and open your heart to the calmness of your emotional mind.
By Willian James3 days ago in Humans
How Trauma Affects Relationships And Ways To Heal From It
Most people at various periods of life undergo negative thinking, however, when it gets chronic, it may have severe consequences on both emotional health, relationships, and performance. CBT is one of the most effective psychological strategies that have been discovered to deal with such negative thought processes. CBT helps individuals to adopt effective techniques of transforming negative thinking to a balanced and constructive thinking by concentrating on the impact of thoughts on feelings and behaviors.
By Robert Smith3 days ago in Humans
The Text
How Three Words on a Screen Ended Everything THE NOTIFICATION THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING 🔔 Jennifer Mitchell was loading the dishwasher on a Sunday evening in October when her husband David's phone buzzed on the kitchen counter and the notification preview displayed three words from a contact saved as "Work - Mike" that read "I miss you" followed by a heart emoji, and in the approximately two seconds it took for Jennifer's eyes to register the notification and her brain to process its implications, twenty-two years of marriage, three children, a house they had built together, and an entire shared life that she believed was fundamentally solid despite the normal stresses and distances of long-term partnership collapsed into a single devastating realization that the man she had trusted completely had been lying to her about something fundamental, and the specific pain of that moment was not anger or sadness but rather the sickening vertigo of discovering that the ground you have been standing on does not actually exist, that the reality you inhabited was a performance maintained by someone who was simultaneously living a different reality that you knew nothing about 💔😱
By The Curious Writer4 days ago in Humans
The Song Nobody Else Can Hear 🎵
THE FREQUENCY OF CONNECTION 🎶 Mia Park was born with a neurological condition called autonomous sensory meridian response that in her case manifested not as the typical tingling sensations most ASMR experiencers describe but as the perception of a faint continuous melody that only she could hear, a personal soundtrack that shifted in tempo, key, and emotional quality based on her proximity to certain people and certain environments, and for most of her life she assumed this internal music was a form of tinnitus or auditory hallucination and she mentioned it to no one because hearing music that nobody else can hear is the kind of symptom that gets you referred to psychiatrists and she had no interest in being medicated out of something that while unexplainable was not unpleasant, just strange and private and hers alone 🎵
By The Curious Writer4 days ago in Humans
