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Does the chart share how you’re meant to communicate in career?

Yes, the chart maps this really well. The key is that career communication is not just one placement - it is three systems working together. **Mercury sign and house** is your default communication s…

r/astrologycomment4/5/2026
Ex came back with lustful intentions and its so humiliating

Ex came back with lustful intentions and its so humiliating — i really need some support pls. I was in my first relationship in 2024. He was my first love i was intensely attached to him and i was a mess when he left. he admitted that he never fell in love with…

r/ExNoContactpost3/22/2026
Help me understand something...I am literally a victim of multiple gropings, physical abuse, a knife assault, rape and other crimes. How can I be "playing a victim role" if I am constantly placed in one?

Help me understand something...I am literally a victim of multiple gropings, physical abuse, a knife assault, rape and other crimes. How can I be "playing a victim role" if I am constantly placed in one? — What is up with people dehumanizing victims of trauma on social media and in real fucking life? For my very first relationship I was in a DV relationship and was beat for 3 years. I got groped as a …

r/CPTSDpost3/28/2026
I still feel like all the abuse was normal

I still feel like all the abuse was normal — Three months ago I had a realization that my mother was abusive my entire life. Verbally and physically. Silent treatments. Emotional neglect. Hitting me in public as an adult. About a week after tha…

r/CPTSDpost4/1/2026
Does the chart share how you’re meant to communicate in career?

Does the chart share how you’re meant to communicate in career? — Recent post on using your chart to learn more about suitable career paths inspired me. now I’m curious if the chart speaks to how you communicate within that career. In my experience some people are …

r/astrologypost4/2/2026
At Portland’s Lone Fir graves, a long-awaited apology is finally heard

At Portland’s Lone Fir graves, a long-awaited apology is finally heard — At a ceremony honoring ancestors and marking the start of memorial construction at Lone Fir Cemetery’s Block 14, Multnomah County’s chair and commissioners read their apology on site for the first tim…

r/AsianAmericanpost4/5/2026
Don't you think it's sexist for my fiance (28M) to not want our future children to have my (28F) last name?

Don't you think it's sexist for my fiance (28M) to not want our future children to have my (28F) last name? — my fiance and i always fight over this issue. i think if i'm the one that's getting pregnant, going through labor, and giving birth, of COURSE the child should take on my last name instead of his to h…

r/relationship_advicepost4/6/2026
Parentification is sick and effed

Parentification is sick and effed — Idk just needed an internet space to metaphorically scream it from the rooftops I am very grateful for this subreddit Parentification is so sick and effed. It was so dehumanizing. I have put effort…

r/CPTSDpost4/6/2026
how come (certain) people react aggressively to suicide, and suicidal thoughts?

how come (certain) people react aggressively to suicide, and suicidal thoughts? — I started thinking about suicide when I was 12. I'm 21 now. One of the first things I heard was that I was being "selfish" and "stupid". My grandmother was dying back in 2016, her brother found out ab…

r/CPTSDpost4/6/2026
i feel like im breaking and idk where to say this all

i feel like im breaking and idk where to say this all — maybe there is a better more specific to what im saying kind of subreddit to put this on but i dont really know much abt reddits or what exactly im allowed to say where so: **tw: abuse, neglect, vio…

r/EmotionalNeglectpost4/7/2026
Did anyone else grow up in the 70's with these ritualistic, delayed punishment "ceremonies" from their narcissistic parent?

Did anyone else grow up in the 70's with these ritualistic, delayed punishment "ceremonies" from their narcissistic parent? — I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the weird, almost ceremonial punishments my mum used to put me through, and it’s been stirring up a lot of old feelings. I’m wondering if anyone else experienced …

r/raisedbynarcissistspost4/9/2026
being "tolerated" hurts so much

being "tolerated" hurts so much — I don't think this will ever get any less painful. The idea that people have to tolerate my mental illness, feels like such a deep wound that i don't know what to do. Ive always been a person with the…

r/EmotionalNeglectpost4/9/2026
It’s frustrating how often I run into women with Avoidant tendencies.

I'm not suggesting that sub is 100% bad (nothing is all bad or all good). But it's absolutely an echo-chamber that frequently becomes toxic and dehumanizing, conflates every negative behavioral trait …

r/attachment_theorycomment6/16/2025
It’s frustrating how often I run into women with Avoidant tendencies.

>While it's indeed true people (and early on myself included, until I knew better) confuse or wrongly attribute abusive patterns and narcissism to avoidant attachment, I don't think it's intentional. …

r/attachment_theorycomment6/16/2025
It’s frustrating how often I run into women with Avoidant tendencies.

Everyone on these boards has healing to do, so that's not some "gotcha", my friend. >for some reason you’re very emotionally attached and aggravated by this.This is just a personal rant on some perce…

r/attachment_theorycomment6/16/2025
Unsent letter to a prior ex, in the midst of a current breakup.

Avoidants are demonized because they don’t communicate and often deny their (ex)partner the ability to communicate and that is dehumanizing becuase communication is what separates us from the rest of …

r/AnxiousAttachmentcomment11/5/2025
How do you respond to people who are very quick to think that you’re angry at them?

I guess I don’t believe everyone who interacts with an avoidant is anxious and I guess that is my key confusion around this. While I guess I can imagine a person being annoying and constantly asking i…

r/attachment_theorycomment1/16/2026
Men having rigid body type preferences

Funny thing is, I don’t like it when I’m “their type” either and they take pains to point that out. It just makes me feel like they don’t care about me as a person, it’s just that I fit a certain phy…

r/datingoverfortycomment3/11/2026
Why is casual sex so hard?

Same. That’s how I felt with mine. Like a fleshlight. And look I can be for that kinda thing but we need to TALK about it. No communication with intimate partners is so dehumanizing and it’s why I k…

r/datingoverfortycomment3/12/2026
My biological mother sexually abused me in such weird sadistic ways throughout my childhood and I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced this

It’s so dehumanizing constantly being put under a microscope in the most vulnerable time in your life its so gross that people can itemize someone like that like it’s a game

r/raisedbynarcissistscomment3/12/2026
Men having rigid body type preferences

I think it's weird to tell someone you're dating what your type is. It's something that can mess with people's heads, and no one needs to know. It can also seem kind of fetishizing/dehumanizing toward…

r/datingoverfortycomment3/15/2026
The trauma bond is wild

Right there with you. For me it’s my intelligence and wealth, I just don’t feel as intelligent and financially well off I drained my life savings, equity in the house to entertain the relationship, a…

r/NarcissisticAbusecomment3/16/2026
The "Manosphere"

>It is actually loneliness and not having any access to women and/or human touch and intimacy.  This. I hear a man says this, and a huge alarm goes off in my head. We can of course say that by human …

r/Stoicismcomment3/16/2026
The "Manosphere"

"But when I hear "access to women"... it feels dehumanizing." To be fair, there are some whackjobs out there who think what you're worried about. However for most men, what this means is that they wa…

r/Stoicismcomment3/16/2026
Feeling genuine disgust when my parents seem proud of me/brag about my accomplishments

Exactly, it's dehumanizing to only be praised when you're the perfect robot/Barbie doll husk. You're not seen as your own person with your own wants and needs, simply an extension made to please every…

r/EmotionalNeglectcomment3/17/2026
How do you deal with resentment toward a parent who “did their best”?

You basically grew up in a cult (all dysfunctional families are cults, but especially the crazy religious ones). It's okay to feel all your feelings about that. It's okay to cut off your abusers. You…

r/EmotionalNeglectcomment3/18/2026
How does the narcissist feel inside?

---Please read this all--- They are angry. Uhh, I love my dad, and I notice he becomes a nitpicky narcissist--when he is unhappy with his life, and almost afraid of life, or insecure about life. I…

r/NarcissisticAbusecomment3/19/2026
Does anyone else just not tell their mother anything

our moms sound pretty sick, and i hope you don't stay with your mother because she will stomp the light out of you like my mother did with me. due to health and other issues, i've found myself constan…

r/AsianParentStoriescomment3/20/2026
(tw: trafficking) I can't interact in queer (or even fandom) spaces because of all the sex

Hey OP, I'm a little low on spoons, but I wanted to chime in and I just wanted to say that I feel a lot of these comments are glossing over the fact that they haven't been in your *exact* shoes (maybe…

r/CPTSDcomment3/22/2026
A lot of parents give their children mental disorders then pretend as if it's the child's fault.

I remember even Gabor Mate who worked with people who were addicted to drugs, heroin addicts mostly, saying how he has not met a single addict who wasn't heavily abused and traumatized in childhood. I…

r/raisedbynarcissistscomment3/22/2026
PsychoCybernetics Visualization

I focused on one goal: my crush. So the first visualization was about me holding, feeling, smelling my crush, going on the perfect date, etc. And it turned out that visualization was completely count…

r/lawofattractioncomment3/22/2026
As an ardent follower of Astrology - I now find it very dehumanising.

Okay, so life as we know of is a cycle. A cycle in loop until certain karmic aspects are nullified. Now, humans run in loops of recurring patterns at certain intervals. Now, this is usually \~ 2.5 y…

r/vedicastrologycomment3/24/2026
As an ardent follower of Astrology - I now find it very dehumanising.

Real vedic astrology is extremely blunt about the reality of a person's life. Life is dehumanizing by itself, vedic astrology simply affirms what is seen and felt.

r/vedicastrologycomment3/24/2026
inappropriate relationship with my therapist

Seconding all this and sending so much love and care, OP. You are not in the wrong at all. A grown man's predatory decisions and actions, especially coming from a therapist!, are not your responsibili…

r/CPTSDcomment3/25/2026
Whats the most hurtful thing a parent/caretaker has said to you?

nbd just the fact that my mother kept repeating that children are exactly like dogs and she trained me as a toddler to go to her when she whistled. totally dehumanizing.

r/raisedbynarcissistscomment3/28/2026
My boyfriend (M25) saw an old video of me(F24) and was disgusted. How can I get over this?

honestly, that's such a gross thing to say i would be grossed out even if he was talking about another person. it's not a problem just because he was unintentionally talking about you, it's a problem …

r/relationship_advicecomment3/29/2026
My boyfriend (M25) saw an old video of me(F24) and was disgusted. How can I get over this?

Hey! Former obese woman here the same age as you. He is allowed to have a type yes and it is true he didn’t know what you looked like. The issue isn’t that he isn’t attracted to heavier women. The…

r/relationship_advicecomment3/29/2026
My boyfriend (M25) saw an old video of me(F24) and was disgusted. How can I get over this?

It’s so disrespectful, dehumanizing and generally hateful. A person who can be like that about *anyone* isn’t a safe person to me in a relationship with.

r/relationship_advicecomment3/29/2026
My boyfriend (M25) saw an old video of me(F24) and was disgusted. How can I get over this?

how dehumanizing, i wouldn’t be comfortable staying with someone who said those things about fat people. like it makes it worse that it was you, but even if it wasn’t, he revealed something very impor…

r/relationship_advicecomment3/29/2026
They try to ruin your appearance

That’s exactly what i am talking about it is like spiritual thing they cut you from you real true self your strong capable existent present and magical and free real self and they want you to live as …

r/raisedbynarcissistscomment3/30/2026
My boyfriend (M25) saw an old video of me(F24) and was disgusted. How can I get over this?

I gotta be totally honest and tell you I’m not entirely sure what the best way to go about getting over this, in whatever way is right for you. My heart goes out to you and I’m so incredibly sorry you…

r/relationship_advicecomment3/30/2026
When do you know to end a relationship?

yeah any longer OP and she will probably start accusing you of shit you didn't ever do. or it reaches emasculating/dehumanizing levels - both not good at all. hormones are a weird thing to work with,…

r/relationshipscomment3/30/2026
UPDATE: My (23F) Boyfriend (24M) got really jacked and now I’m no longer attracted to him

Oh please. Half of Reddit is men talking about their preferences. It’s 100x more common to see men post about their partners looks changing than women. And outside of relationships, other subs are f…

r/relationship_advicecomment4/1/2026
My Boyfriend 18M won't stop calling Me 18F a foid, how do I stop this?

>"Foid" is a derogatory slang term and a shortened form of "femoid," which is used primarily within online **incel** (involuntary celibate) communities to refer to women. It is considered a misogynist…

r/relationship_advicecomment4/1/2026
My Boyfriend 18M won't stop calling Me 18F a foid, how do I stop this?

Foid means "female humanoid". It's a term to refer to women when you view them as less than human. Fwiw, if anyone ever called me this, even as a joke, I would be disgusted and rethink having anythin…

r/relationship_advicecomment4/1/2026
My Boyfriend 18M won't stop calling Me 18F a foid, how do I stop this?

I hadn’t heard “foid” before, but it doesn’t appear to make any sense to say you’re the “foid to his chud.” Sounds like he’s proud of his gross far-right manosphere bullshit and gets a kick out of deh…

r/relationship_advicecomment4/1/2026
Has anyone ever gave a narc honest feedback?

It’s the worst. He gives me compliments that I feel are objectifying and dehumanizing. I told him that once and he got all offended. Told me I should feel lucky my husband still finds me attractive af…

r/NarcissisticAbusecomment4/1/2026
My Boyfriend 18M won't stop calling Me 18F a foid, how do I stop this?

I had to look it up because I had no idea what it means. But from what I can see (and I may not have the full picture here) this is a dehumanizing term that basically implies that you're *like* a huma…

r/relationship_advicecomment4/2/2026
My Boyfriend 18M won't stop calling Me 18F a foid, how do I stop this?

It is short for female humanoid, but here's the deeper disturbing part - it can refer to anyone or ANYTHING that is female humanoid, including sexbots and silicone torsos, so saying it to or about a p…

r/relationship_advicecomment4/2/2026
My Boyfriend 18M won't stop calling Me 18F a foid, how do I stop this?

As your elder I’m gonna warn you, if you normalize dehumanizing terms that belief starts to become ingrained without you even realizing.

r/relationship_advicecomment4/2/2026
What’s something you wish you could tell your parents but never will?

You say you'd "die for me", but won't put in any effort to not be abusive, neglectful, and dehumanizing, so your words are hollow.

r/CPTSDcomment4/4/2026
What’s something you wish you could tell your parents but never will?

Their "best" was abusive, neglectful, and dehumanizing. It's not the flex they think it is. People that try their best at school and it's horrible don't graduate. People that try their best at work …

r/CPTSDcomment4/4/2026
What is the link between childhood trauma and anxious attachment in adults?

There's a direct link. Child abuse and neglect cause insecure attachment. A good therapist can help you work through your attachment issues and learn secure attachment behaviors. Here are some trust…

r/EmotionalNeglectcomment4/4/2026
Does the chart share how you’re meant to communicate in career?

The chart absolutely covers this, and it goes deeper than just Mercury. Mercury shows how you naturally process and express ideas, but it is the delivery vehicle, not the full picture. For career com…

r/astrologycomment4/4/2026
Why Don't Quality Men Seem To Want To Be With Me?

This is horrible and dehumanizing. What any person has done with their life is part of makes them who they are. If men don’t care about that then they may as well just state openly that they’re seek…

r/datingoverfortycomment4/4/2026
Has anyone else as a young kid assumed possible sexual intent from parental affection?

Yes. My take is that it's because emotionally abusive/neglectful parents are so dehumanizing and disrespectful of boundaries that it sets off some sense of predation in our minds. Somehow, we grasp …

r/EmotionalNeglectcomment4/5/2026
My fiancé (38M) and my (33F) different mental states when we wake up is causing friction?

Yeah like my partner is a slow waker whereas I wake up in like 1/8th the time he does. He is definitely more grumpy in the morning if we wake up at the same time. It can be anxiety inducing because …

r/relationship_advicecomment4/5/2026
Don't you think it's sexist for my fiance (28M) to not want our future children to have my (28F) last name?

right? the MOST dehumanizing and sexist tradition?? what?? talk about a hill to die on!

r/relationship_advicecomment4/6/2026
"Growing up emotionally neglected is like nearly dying of thirst just outside the fenced off fountain of a parent's kindness and interest."

My parents divorced when I was 4. My father sexually abused me when I was 2-3.  My husband is incredibly abusive. DARVO, dehumanizing "Are you dead yet?" in response to my being in severe pain, he r…

r/EmotionalNeglectcomment4/6/2026
Listening to memoirs to heal

You definitely must check it out if you like her work, she's a lovely writer. I know almost nothing about Mariah Carey, but her memoir sounds intriguing. I've listened to I'm Glad My Mom Died and a …

r/CPTSDcomment4/6/2026
You are replaceable

Unfortunately this is the only thing helping me truly move on from my ex, whom I loved with my mind body and soul. And I'm sure our moments together were some of the best for him too. That's why he co…

r/BreakUpscomment4/7/2026