Thanks to TikTok and the current era of social media that has ushered us through the use of technology, anyone with a smartphone and having downloaded at least one social media platform can be “trending”. There are new things to watch out for. Weaponized treatment – speak.
thanks to the recent Bustle articleTwitter and TikTok are buzzing with people debating what “therapeutic speak” is and how people are weaponizing it.
The article claims that weaponized “cures” are making people selfish.
Well, not quite.Writers claim weaponized cures speak can make people selfish More specifically, they write: [the] On the other side of that boundary setting”, the need for self-care appears “too overzealous” and therefore selfish.
They cite stories of people who were broken up by friends and examples of people who set boundaries with others, and try to analyze whether the approach was appropriate or how selfish it was — but , Twitter had a different idea…
The tweet that started it said, “This is horrible” and included screenshots of the first few paragraphs.
A 24-year-old woman named Anna had been abandoned by a friend. Unfortunately, our friendship doesn’t seem to fit into that framework. ”
“I can no longer hold the emotional space you wanted me to have. I think the support you need is beyond what I can provide. Response written by AI or an email to send to your boss.
The problem is not the weaponized “cure story.” The problem calls this the “treatment story”.
Someone says, “friendship is humanized” in response to twitterbased on social media perceptions of therapy, not the results of therapy or therapy language.
Dr. Julie Garner, an executive performance coach with a Ph.D. Fuel this stuff.
She believes therapy would have provided a much better alternative than Anna’s friend provided.
They seem to want to apply therapy techniques to broken friendships, but ultimately failed to achieve their goals as they learned these “therapy” techniques from TikTok.
An Instagram trauma and relationship therapist named Jordan Pickell addressed this kind of situation with an article.
She said, “Real therapists don’t support clients killing each other with their loved ones. It helps you have a candid conversation with
If Anna’s friend had actually gone to therapy or seen a therapist, she might have been able to communicate her feelings in a healthier way, but instead, the discussion of “talking in therapy” would have helped. had.
But people are armed with these methods they hear on the internet.
There is nothing inherently wrong with this perceived way of speaking to people, which some have called “therapy speaking.” Make it happen.
The conversation on Bustle’s article echoes a similar narrative following a 2019 tweet by a woman named Melissa A. Fabello.
The tweet spoke positively of the message Favero received from her friend: “Do you have the emotional/mental capacity for me to vent for a few minutes about something medical/weight related?” ?”
Towards the end of the thread, she created a similarly robotic template of examples that you can handle if you’re “up to your limits.”
People joked about this for months, then immediately started talking to everyone like this and laughed, claiming they thought it was all absurd, but nothing inherently bad about what Favero shared with everyone. There is nothing.
What people should understand about this situation is that this conversation is completely nuanced and specific to these people and this situation. No, but the beauty of human nature is that every person and every relationship is different, and conversations like this are usually conducted and held with a higher level of compassion.
These kinds of concepts and methods of talking to people are all over the internet, and some people use them as a means of feeling right about their lives.
They feel empowered to be selfish as long as they see themselves as just “setting boundaries” and that’s the real problem.
Isaac Serna-Diez is an assistant editor focusing on entertainment and news, social justice, and politics.keep up with his rants about current events on his twitter.
