vocabulary

For a change of pace, have you had any fun/unexpected perks you gained from your struggle? — As someone with adhd and cptsd I've always been good at reading people, which I know now is because I had to learn this shit to be able to predict my parents emotional states. I got into fighting ga…

I'm already behind in life at 18 — I wasn't sure which flair to use, because I think I need advice on a lot of things. I also want to preface by saying I do not blame any of this on my parents, schools, mental health, etc, and this was…

All Day Awareness.. — Today, I figured, I am going to use ADA. (for helping with Lucid Dreaming) What I take from actually using it, is kinda like looking at it as meditating throughout the day. If i notice my mind wander…

I (17M) fear I may be falling out of love with my girlfriend (19F). — First of all, I am sorry for any vocabulary-related mistakes, english is not my 1st language. So, we've been together for now a year and a half, we started dating when I was 16 and her 17, we met via…

Advice on how to proceed in this situation — I, 40F, am in a relationship with my bf, 31M for 1 year and 2 months now. We met online, but coincidentally, we've met before on two other occasions and only found out while getting to know each other…

Getting tested for ADHD — Hi, firstly sorry if this is the wrong forum to post on. i'm a 16 year old girl in a brown household. how do I bring up getting tested for ADHD to my parents? Part of the reason why this is so hard is…

psychedelics keep telling Bryan Johnson to grow up and he doesn't — Hey everyone. I'm sure a lot of you have seen Bryan Johnson's psychedelic experiments by now. The Don't Die guy: 100 supplements a day, thousands of biomarkers, got blood plasma from his own son. Over…

PSA: do NOT read “It Didn’t Start With You” by Mark Wolynn — Multiple trigger warnings for brief mentions of abuse, gaslighting, suicide, etc. It occurred to me that I forgot to make the post about why survivors shouldn’t read this book. Better late than neve…

PSA: do NOT read “It Didn’t Start With You” by Mark Wolynn — r/CPTSD doesn’t allow crossposting so I’m making a second post here. Multiple trigger warnings for brief mentions of abuse, gaslighting, suicide, etc. It occurred to me that I forgot to make the po…

Is Manifestation just born into some people & they know how it works instinctively? — I feel I was born with the knowledge of practicing M from birth & assumed it was a trait everyone had. I can't explain it much more than naturally "wishing" for a toy or scenario to occur and it did. …

For those who've moved on, are there things you still can't enjoy due to your ex? — My biggest regret with my ex is letting them into 'my world.' My ex was a highly manipulative person. They tried to seem like a devoted, loving partner by taking interests in my likes/hobbies, but in …

Is it a valid for me to be concerned by my partner’s cultural knowlege? — I (21F) have been with my partner (21M) for 4 years. I love him and he’s a great person. He's patient, so kind, and I've grown up with him. But I’m starting to be bothered by a certain level of "intel…

DETACHMENT SIMPLIFIED! — I am in travel past some days now, last trek i had this epiphany that i wished to share , hope the analogy sits well with the lot of you. Ya know I done manifested everythin' people, experiences, mon…

DETACHMENT SIMPLIFIED! — I am in travel past some days now, last trek i had this epiphany that i wished to share , hope the analogy sits well with the lot of you. Ya know I done manifested everythin' people, experiences, mon…

Sophia NLU (natural language understanding) Enging released, with full specs and online demo at: https://cicero.sh/sophia/ For anyone deploying conversational chat bots at all, and is alternativ…

I think this is an interesting question that I have often thought of. I didn't read the study, but in general I don't think anyone should think of "attachment style" as an immutable characteristic - …

I just watch the show Alot I think the words have worked their way in my vocabulary. Trust I know the difference be tv and reality, but thank you.

You've a wonderfully rich vocabulary.

In my possession, I have a lot of antique guns passed down from family members. Like the Derringer my great grandmother carried as a traveling nurse in the early 1900's. And the 38 special her daughte…

I had a great 2nd date yesterday. I am learning another language and my date is a native speaker so I forced him to listen to my terrible grammar and limited vocabulary but I'm pretty sure he found it…

We’ve lost the original texts of the founders of the school, so unlike Plato who survives complete or Aristotle who we have a decent chunk of, we have to rely on later Stoics, who are adapting the ear…

The divergence in perspectives on Stoicism is a result of a massive data gap between the original ancient hardware and the modern cultural software. The term has been hijacked by a contemporary "movie…

My baby daddy used the word silly non stop. I was like mother fucker expand your vocabulary goddamn lol

Those words exist although academic and not widely known. I have not yet seen them used to refer to the calendar. For example Vietnamese is not classified as a Sinitic language but does have a large S…

I love that there is a German word for everything. We just need a better vocabulary! Maybe I'll just say Krankenstand...

They never seem to think they did anyone wrong! Apology is not in their vocabulary!

Sleep on it. Probably invite them to talk the next day over a bottle of my favourite red. Figure out if they’ve done any internal work and added “accountability” to their vocabulary. Worst case, …

Hey, you're the one talking about yourself using the vocabulary of an industry that could give two shits about women. That's the gross part here. You enjoy whatever sex acts you like.

I'm so glad you feel that way. Because, it can be such a lonely experience. It's only after 14 years I got the vocabulary to explain my feelings. How are you coping and how are things?

Finally, I feel so seen by someone. I believe you have really gone through what I've gone through because you can exactly empathize with me. Thank you so much. Yes, it is so painful to be at the recei…

I wouldn't at all call what's happening "reactive abuse" - I don't shout at people, or do the things they're doing in the sense of me being equally aggressive. It's moreso me just responding in kind.…

Being reborn into a western fantasy setting doesn’t mean heaven. Isekai is a genre of escapism from the real world and into a western fantasy videogame world. There are so many isekais that use gamer …

Eh, dinner together isn't working. You cant create a daily family culture element on your own. He is acting like a child, yes... but you're acting like a mother to him, and both those things are not g…

Yes. Although at the time I didn't know what was wrong, I just thought of myself as broken, and I had no vocabulary around these episodes when I would just 'step aside'

Thank you so much for this! That’s exactly it, 100% - for this horrible situation and for pretty much any argument we ever had. Every time it ended with him shifting the blame onto me, and I would be…

What the hell is this vocabulary. Glowing? What does that mean to you specifically. 😆

Stress overload (Family Problems, Financial, Insecurity) Trauma and past experiences, and lack of knowledge on emotional regulation. These seem to be the main reasons of individuals who are overwhelm…

Doing all those interventions and have to share that eating anti inflammatory foods, which came to an extreme about a year ago bc as it seems my mast cells react to anything that could upset them… my …

Editing to add: i think my initial comment was a little nitpicky and in doing that i pulled the conversation toward something that may be a bit less relevant than the main post, so i do want to reiter…

Yes definitely end everything immediately and find someone whose vocabulary 100% aligns with yours and won’t give you the ick. Never settle! 💅

Thiiiiis 100% this! You're not going to get in trouble for mentioning drug use. The police literally do not care about that. What he did was so terribly wrong on so many levels but the magnitude of …

I just want to say how much I relate to this comment. You are not alone, and I'm so sorry it happened to you too. It's one of those things that was so normalized in my youth that I struggled for decad…

“You used to be so eloquent, what happened to you?” ETA: I used to take her thinking I was eloquent as a compliment and then below happened and now it just makes me angry. My mom said (and still s…

It isn’t necessarily an actual threat, a lot of people say a lot of big statements in therapy and most professionals can assess why the intent behind them is. My issue is honestly with the therapist b…

The only thing I could recommend is to read more, fiction and non-fiction. Reading increases vocabulary, imagination and allows you to make connections between things you wouldn’t otherwise make. Read…

YEEESSSSS!!! I’m saving this because…yes!! I’ve been married twice. I never tell people why I got divorced the first time because it makes me sound like an insufferable b!tch. But it was because he w…

if you didn’t have the vocabulary for “intelligence gap” you probably weren’t much better off than him.

WHOA!!! My mind is absolutely blown rn! Would you be able to find time to discuss these concepts at some point? Im trying my best to truly master and understand a lot of the concepts brought to me. I …

My auntie said to me that I should remove loser from my self referral vocabulary and ever since I have been avoid calling myself the word for a while and my self esteem has gotten better I'll add the …

I get the ADHD 'thought-loop'—I deal with it too—but an excess of vocabulary is actually taking away from your meaning here. This was a request for advice, yet the response is so focused on descriptiv…

It's both a process that you practice and a set of attributes within you. We aren't born with zero personality attributes. We aren't born with zero spiritual attributes. We have these weird little …

I am glad she is getting therapy and hopefully she will open up and learn from it. My hubby has HUGE abandonment issues that he has had many years of therapy for. Even now, 26 years in, he can get a…

You might benefit from IFS or some form of 'parts work', where you think of the anxiety as a separate entity from 'you'. You are starting to see that. You can see that you are distracting yourself f…

Yeah, that's one of the traditional ways of looking at it. For some people, it sure feels like a barrier. But, just like today where we get stuck in some meme and that filters our world view, people w…

"Bitch, do I look like your last girlfriend?" really needs to be a standard line in all fem-presenting people's vocabulary.

Ok, keep in mind that I’ve done a LOT of thinking about this, and plugged it into my philosophical theory that I’ve been working on for over a decade, called the Geometry of Intention. So the followin…

You know what, I actually really appreciate this perspective. It takes genuine critical thinking to push back on something so widely accepted, and I respect that. But I want to offer a few things that…

I love this answer, but I would share one thing for beginning anything in this direction, not just channeling. If you are not yet familiar with how to ask emotionally without words, you can still us…

You asked where the person ends and where the rest of the world begins. And I think that’s actually the whole thing right there. You’re a psychiatrist so you’ve literally watched this happen in front …

I keep oscillating between they were amazing and yet they could have been so much more but I was always reaching for someone who was just a little out of reach. I had to perform for connection. And th…

Hi, OP. Please do not get advice for this very complicated situation on Reddit. I have a disability that still leaves me fairly functional, but it has completely altered areas of my daily life that …

That’s about when I had mine! Late March early April 2024! I was in complete crisis and thought I was going insane because out of the blue I realized that reality isn’t real, identity isn’t real, ego …

His vocabulary is all wrong to sustain a relationship. This is the wrong way to express love and care ….wake up and smell the coffee OP.

yeah it was clearly targeted; i had even worse cases in some vocabulary google used on me... (why are you calling my scale a mountain?)