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A Narcissus is an empty shell with no real existence

A Narcissus is an empty shell with no real existence — "A Narcissus, such as Ovid's Narcissus, is someone who thinks he has found himself by looking in the mirror. His life consists in searching for his reflection in the gaze of others. The other exists, …

r/NarcissisticAbusepost3/18/2026
The successful are not here

The successful are not here — After years of watching YouTube videos about startup / founder stuff and reading blogs, Reddit, and the horrible place that is LinkedIn, I came to realize that 99.9% of advice (especially in the SaaS …

r/Entrepreneurpost5/7/2025
„Did you forgive them yet?“ — I stood my ground and said NO.

„Did you forgive them yet?“ — I stood my ground and said NO. — I opened up about my abuse to a 'spiritual friend'. His first question was: „Have you managed to forgive them yet?“ I said NO. And it's NOT my duty to forgive. He said „But forgiveness causes healin…

r/CPTSDpost3/9/2026
Ingo Swann, did anyone experience something similar to what he did?

Ingo Swann, did anyone experience something similar to what he did? — I want to be careful here because I’m not trying to promote pseudoscience. At the same time, I’ve had some dreams in my life that have turned into reality exactly as I saw in the dream, so I’m open-mi…

r/AstralProjectionpost3/10/2026
It's not lovebombing. It's grooming.

It's not lovebombing. It's grooming. — Adult grooming is a pattern where someone gradually (or rapidly) builds trust, lowers boundaries, gathers leverage, and conditions an adult target to tolerate confusion, dependency, secrecy, or sexual…

r/NarcissisticAbusepost3/12/2026
Finally Got a Lucid Dream... So I Tested your Queries in it

Finally Got a Lucid Dream... So I Tested your Queries in it — Hey guys, this is gonna be a bit of a long one lol. \[CONTEXT\] For a while, I've been trying to lucid dream, but was too lazy to consistently do training, write in journals, or set multiple alarms …

r/LucidDreamingpost3/15/2026
After 10 years of doing the most, I (30F) told my husband (34F) that we needed counseling or separation. Help me process?

After 10 years of doing the most, I (30F) told my husband (34F) that we needed counseling or separation. Help me process? — I met my husband when I was a 20 year old college student and even though he is 4 years older than me, I became a pseudo-mother upon meeting him. For the last 10 years, I have been the sole breadwin…

r/relationshipspost3/23/2026
have you ever utilized ai-assisted therapy apps?

have you ever utilized ai-assisted therapy apps? — hi all! i'm an nyc-based journalist currently working on a story examining the uptick in ai-assisted mental health/therapy apps (e.g. dawn, abby, pi . ai, etc). i'm hoping to speak with one or two …

r/therapypost3/30/2026
My Nmom claims her "therapist" told her to stop giving me love, since it was "enabling" me to "abuse" her. (I think her "therapist" is an AI.)

My Nmom claims her "therapist" told her to stop giving me love, since it was "enabling" me to "abuse" her. (I think her "therapist" is an AI.) — I haven't visited my mom in private in almost five years. I have seen her at a couple of necessary public outings. The reason being... she effectively held me captive for three years in my 20s. *That'…

r/raisedbynarcissistspost4/3/2026
RetroPK

RetroPK — # RetroPK Now, depending on your mileage this may or not may constitute as an experience. In 2025 in order to test for whether I had retroPK or not I endeavored to use a true rng to see how many time…

r/experiencerspost4/4/2026
Afraid of everything - What you think i could do?

Afraid of everything - What you think i could do? — If i was going to use archetypes, im a child of a devouring mother and an absent father. **Most of my attitude in life is a combination of flight-freeze but also some fawn.** Anima, Animus and Shadow …

r/EmotionalNeglectpost4/5/2026
Afraid of everything - What you think i could do?

Afraid of everything - What you think i could do? — If i was going to use archetypes, im a child of a devouring mother and an absent father. **Most of my attitude in life is a combination of flight-freeze but also some fawn.** Anima, Animus and Shadow …

r/raisedbynarcissistspost4/5/2026
Afraid of everything - What you think i could do?

Afraid of everything - What you think i could do? — If i was going to use archetypes, im a child of a devouring mother and an absent father. **Most of my attitude in life is a combination of flight-freeze but also some fawn.** Im essentially afraid of…

r/CPTSDpost4/5/2026
The difference a year can make.

The difference a year can make. — So I'm very thankful that I'm in a position where I can do some traveling during the divorce process. Thankfully, my business took off essentially after my divorce started. After my wife left me, and…

r/Divorcepost4/8/2026
histrionic mom enabler dad - thinking about no contact again

histrionic mom enabler dad - thinking about no contact again — 28F, really struggling recently trying to figure out how to approach the current dynamic of my parents. I am the scapegoat in my family, and therefore the only one out of 5 kids that has ever called e…

r/raisedbynarcissistspost4/8/2026
Do jealous immigrant APs like to call their well-adjusted children racist?

Do jealous immigrant APs like to call their well-adjusted children racist? — As a Chinese American who is somewhat trilingual, I'm curious as to whether anyone else has APs who either a) do not speak fluent English despite living in the US for 20+ years and demand your transla…

r/AsianParentStoriespost4/9/2026
manifested (kind of) an SP from thin air!

manifested (kind of) an SP from thin air! — this will be a long one, buckle up! # chapter 0, my journey so i started manifesting seriously from a month now. i didnt really know what it was before that. i kind of thought it was hocus pocus ps…

r/Manifestationpost4/11/2026
Anyone is just so fucking stuck and don't know how to deal with this?

Anyone is just so fucking stuck and don't know how to deal with this? — I don't have a job, I am studying in pseudo-uni. I feel stuck, disgusting, ugly. I have no income and rely on my parents(they were not straight up abusive monsters, it's all so fucking complicated). I…

r/CPTSDpost4/11/2026
Advice/AIO

Advice/AIO — This may sound weird and then maybe not at all, but I've been putting off asking for advice on this because 1. I wanted to see me handle it on my own, having come pretty far in recovery and feeling …

r/CPTSDpost4/13/2026
Astral Projection: Quick Start Guide

Astral Projection: Quick Start Guide — This post contains guides, FAQs and the fundamentals that are suitable for both beginners and experienced members. Explore the links, videos, Astral Projection stories from experienced community membe…

r/AstralProjectionpost5/2/2021
If you are new here..

More pseudoscience from you (the first being that gravity is attractive- gravity is a warp in the space time continuum as it responds to mass, and only appears to be attractive to the uneducated). No…

r/JosephMurphycomment9/8/2020
START HERE! - Beginner Guides, FAQs, and Resources

Gotta be honest lucid dreaming sounds like a pseudoscientific cult until you actually do it. Worked that way for me but I am still SUCH a noob.

r/LucidDreamingcomment10/17/2022
Manifestation coaches have not refuted any anti-loa arguments

Hm, no. Nice try. The NGCritics sub has dozens of archived stories of people who lost everything due to these teachings that would be otherwise censored and banned in the JM/NG subreddits. This subred…

r/JosephMurphycomment1/24/2025
The successful are not here

99.9% of them sell not tips and secrets, but emotions and the opportunity to procastinate further. They exist because there is a great demand for such emotional pseudo-motivational content.

r/Entrepreneurcomment5/7/2025
My DA bf broke up with me Saturday morning.

"aside from the lack of physical and emotional intimacy it was perfect" ... What kind of relationship was that? Some transactional, pseudo-rational agreement? A lavender marriage? Sounds very strange…

r/attachment_theorycomment8/10/2025
Mass produced emotional security/intelligence?

The same ‘fight’ keeps getting picked as I’m trying to educate the world about how psychiatry is questionable medicine at best. The problem here is the world believes that it is real medicine, thus …

r/attachment_theorycomment8/14/2025
How does the process look transitioning from dismissive avoidant to secure?

EMDR helped me significantly, even with just a few months of sessions. it sounds like pseudo-science but I promise its real. it uses your brain's dream processing system to reprocess traumatizing mem…

r/AvoidantAttachmentcomment1/5/2026
Is casual sex compatible with secure attachment?

I’m a FA leaning secure (previously leaning anxious) after leaving a long marriage and experiencing my first DA discard. I have been using casual sex as a way to explore sexually in my 40s. I lived a …

r/attachment_theorycomment1/16/2026
A Splash of Cold-Water for you

Im sure you know but this post is intelligent, well written and *not* filled with pseudo-intellectual, vague jargon or repetitive points, and therefore doesn’t sound like AI.

r/attachment_theorycomment2/2/2026
Daily sticky thread for rants, raves, celebrations, advice and more! New? Start here!

Attraction to someone changing when you learn more about them is not a feature of sapiosexuality (which I find to be pseudo intellectual gibberish), it’s normal. You sound like you have something else…

r/datingoverthirtycomment2/6/2026
My Experience Being an Avoidant Woman

Would be interesting to know how common avoidant attachment is among lesbians. I knew a lesbian who was extremely avoidant after escaping a physically and mentally abusive relationship (with a man) wh…

r/AvoidantAttachmentcomment2/8/2026
START HERE! - Beginner Guides, FAQs, and Resources

Your post has been removed. Paranormal or Pseudoscientific topics are not allow in this sub. Those can go in /r/LucidDreamingSpec *Discussion of this topic results in a temporary ban*. Repeat offens…

r/LucidDreamingcomment2/14/2026
Daily sticky thread for rants, raves, celebrations, advice and more! New? Start here!

You're simply a person living in the world just like everyone else. :) There is no look criteria for being out there! You know, the philosopher Karl Popper was interested in differentiating between s…

r/datingoverthirtycomment2/20/2026
How honest are securely attached people?

It's a skill. Try looking up HealthyGamerGG on YouTube. A guy named Dr. K used to do pseudo-therapy interviews that you can learn a lot from how he responds to people when they share intimate info lik…

r/attachment_theorycomment3/3/2026
The Cheat Code to the Universe

The spirit of it all is good. Choosing the highest vibration to me sounds like pseudoscience. I'm not saying the idea is bad, but the language is making me cringe. Overall the idea of a cheat code i…

r/Meditationcomment3/7/2026
Any clue what could have happened?

This sounds like a group I've encountered that I refer to as pseudo-mantids. [I talk about my experiences with them in this comment, as well as my observations on and thoughts/opinions about them.](ht…

r/experiencerscomment3/8/2026
Stuck In My Head After Affair

It seems to be remiss if someone didn't point out that lie detectors, although available, are not scientifically reliable. One of the reasons that they aren't allowed in court. It is really more pseud…

r/survivinginfidelitycomment3/8/2026
Ex going on dates and hooking up

I'm doing the same thing; I'm 29(f) and I'm the dumper, broke up with my ex because he checked out of the relationship and was already over me and pseudo dating his asexual roommate (who I later found…

r/BreakUpscomment3/8/2026
Community

I was in Dr Laberge's forum way back. The group was small, the field not well known, so there were no kids. (BTW, kids are welcome here. A small group tends to stand out, but most are completely cool…

r/LucidDreamingcomment3/9/2026
Ingo Swann, did anyone experience something similar to what he did?

My friend, the term “pseudoscience” has been applied to the greatest scientific discoveries of all time. The scientific establishment has continuously sabotaged the careers of those who follow the ev…

r/AstralProjectioncomment3/10/2026
r/survivinginfidelitycomment3/11/2026
My husband (29M) and I (29F) have a dead bedroom because he says I dont initiate

Yeah its definitely not on her really at all as she had no idea anything was even up. Her husband spiraled off a random thought he had and was pseudo-confirming his own fears....but not in a really a…

r/relationship_advicecomment3/12/2026
I'm sick of the state of this subreddit

There are two principles that guide moderation here, which are both balancing acts: no psuedo-science and light-handed moderation that relies on upvotes and reports (with an imperfect, but effective a…

r/LucidDreamingcomment3/12/2026
unpopular opinion: therapy isn't worth $200/session

I've done decades of therapy. I did get some good advice I've time when I was a teenager. He told me to play a sport, which ended up satisfying many genetic level drives. Like how eating and drinking …

r/therapycomment3/12/2026
My experience with NHI's, contact and navigating society.

I'm happy you've found some measure of peace and health, especially if you're a contact experiencer, which is often inherently stressful. But I'm not here to just say niceties, I'm on a mission. The m…

r/experiencerscomment3/12/2026
Thoughts on astro-seek.com requiring registration?

I have free will. You go right ahead! The creators knew they were making an occult topic/ ‘pseudoscience’ science website. That if you know how to use it, can be very valuable bc the original ppl who …

r/AskAstrologerscomment3/13/2026
Can a house drain your energy?

It really could have been hormones more than anything. Try salt in all four corners, you can use salt lamps too. They are pretty and not expensive. Hang an iron horseshoe over the doorway if you can d…

r/energy_workcomment3/13/2026
Self scrying on Ketamine

I've done this yes for quite a long time. I've concluded though that ketamine's depth is largely a cognitive hallucination, ie, an illusion. I can quite easily accept that very, very rarely, like once…

r/Psychonautcomment3/14/2026
Avoidance and not being able to access emotions when deactivating

Sorry I can’t offer any helpful advice. I’m a dismissive avoidant and when this sort of thing has happened in the past most times I (wrongly btw this is a very bad thing that I’m not proud of) initiat…

r/attachment_theorycomment3/15/2026
How dating a narcissist has changed you to this day?

I go out whenever I want, make friendly conversation with people; nobody gets jealous or has a meltdown. My nex used pseudo-psychological jargon against me a lot, so I cant stand hearing "heal", "do t…

r/NarcissisticAbusecomment3/16/2026
Wife (26F) scheduled cosmetic procedures we agreed we wouldn’t do before marriage, using money from our joint account. I’m (28M) struggling with the trust breach.

I have a friend in exactly the same situation. Exactly the same. And his wife uses the same arguments, too. All I can say is that I just love modern (pseudo)feminist order of things. Full on, trendy…

r/relationship_advicecomment3/16/2026
Is it ok to post this here it's a little strong.

I think this is overly harsh….. and overly reductive. He is making leaps that make no sense. Just bc someone is overly empathetic does not mean they don’t have a developed pre-frontal cortex. He’s mak…

r/Codependencycomment3/18/2026
Is it ok to post this here it's a little strong.

Don’t listen to this post. Your prefrontal cortex may or may not be underdeveloped but can’t be inferred by your empathy levels or lack there of. He is posting pseudo science for clicks and to make pe…

r/Codependencycomment3/18/2026
How do I (F26) talk to my partner (M33) about casual misogyny?

He isn't pro-science if his belief system is pseudoscience.

r/relationship_advicecomment3/19/2026
How do I (F26) talk to my partner (M33) about casual misogyny?

My husband has multiple female friends that I trust him alone with, and that he’s had for decades. Your boyfriend views you as lesser and hides it behind shitty pseudoscience.

r/relationship_advicecomment3/19/2026
How do I (F26) talk to my partner (M33) about casual misogyny?

Well, she didn’t ask him to take her. She just asked what the trip was like. So he kinda jumped the gun there. But she also said clearly that she was fine with him wanting it to be just him and the…

r/relationship_advicecomment3/19/2026
How do I (F26) talk to my partner (M33) about casual misogyny?

No, she understands biology, and you and the boyfriend here don’t understand biology beyond how to twist it into pseudoscientific nonsense to justify a self-serving misogynistic world view! Biology r…

r/relationship_advicecomment3/19/2026
How do I (F26) talk to my partner (M33) about casual misogyny?

Do you seriously think men are less emotional and that there is any real scientific evidence to support this? There isn’t. Men are conditioned by societal expectations into not showing emotion in ce…

r/relationship_advicecomment3/19/2026
How do I (F26) talk to my partner (M33) about casual misogyny?

You already articulated it. He has made it clear he won’t listen. You can’t force him to make female friends, it’s true. But you also really really can’t force him to listen to you or give your per…

r/relationship_advicecomment3/19/2026
How do I (F26) talk to my partner (M33) about casual misogyny?

He stated that because he wants to shit her down and keep himself deeply entrenched in his nice self-serving narrative in all its total bs pseudoscience! He is getting emotional because he did y want…

r/relationship_advicecomment3/19/2026
I don't get stereotypes and their relation to Sun signs?

What most people are knowledgeable of is pop or mainstream astrology that makes your sun sign the most important and the only thing that matters. That IS NOT REAL ASTROLOGY. You have to read the WHOLE…

r/astrologycomment3/19/2026
Friend said something that shocked me and explained everything...

Maybe it's not the person you meet, not the statistics of their sex life? Also my point with the article was to let you know that these articles are specifically geared towards making men angry and to…

r/Divorcecomment3/20/2026
Daily sticky thread for rants, raves, celebrations, advice and more! - March 21, 2026

Been seeing this guy for a year, due to his unstable circumstances we ended up moving very fast despite him saying his life was too complicated for a relationship right now. We essentially ended up li…

r/datingoverthirtycomment3/21/2026
Parents have no hobbies or interests

My mom doesn’t even exercise and spends most of her time in bed. She dismisses my concerns for her health (she’s extremely weak and thin) as pseudoscience and doesn’t believe in the benefits of moveme…

r/AsianParentStoriescomment3/22/2026
How do I know what is my attachment style and how to change it properly? I have heard it a lot that it helps

It sounds very likely that you have a preoccupied (aka anxious) attachment. You can certainly take an online quiz, read "Attached" and maybe even watch some Youtube videos, or even take an online…

r/HealMyAttachmentStylecomment3/22/2026
Chiron as an aspect, and as a Jungian archetype.

It’s certainly something complex I would like to understand more. Those two areas you mentioned are major themes of my life that have come with a slew of challenges and odd pseudo advantages. I am cur…

r/astrologycomment3/22/2026
why cant i feel proud about being chinese?

Chinese American 33NB here, grew up in San Francisco, and now I live in the Midwest. In high school, I straddled between several worlds. Two volunteer groups in San Francisco's Chinatown. Involvemen…

r/AsianAmericancomment3/23/2026
Why does it take years to realize you’re traumatized? And why does "standard" therapy often miss the point?

Get a neurodivergent therapist if you can find them I know a bunch of them because I got diagnosed through a psychology group that does testing, and then I asked for somebody who is ND themselves and …

r/CPTSDcomment3/24/2026
Does dating get harder the more you actually know yourself?

>It's stunning to see though that so many people who have "done the work" classify everything into pathology: Love bombing, codependence, attachment style, personality disorders.  Yeah, I know this …

r/datingoverfortycomment3/24/2026
Sleep paralysis, Astral Projection and hearing demonic voices

So, like I'm saying, what if sleep paralysis is just astral projection (meaning your conciousness has entered that plane of existence) only you don't know how to move it...if you can't move your conci…

r/AstralProjectioncomment3/25/2026