This is amusing. Any words to add?
http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/...ses-which-do-you.php
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Honestly, I get really tired of the adjectives healthy and unhealthy being slapped on any and all behaviors, emotions, and thoughts we wish to label with our approval or lack thereof. The mind is an abstraction, so technically to speak of "mental health" at all is to speak in metaphor. Which is fine and all, but it's become sooo literalized and overused in common discourse it drives me batty. And yes, I often use those terms myself out of linguistic laziness. 
Hee hee love some of these. Here’s a few to add:
‘Thank you for sharing that with me/us’. I hate this phrase, though I myself use it sometimes
. It depends on the context, but it particularly makes me want to vomit when it’s used in therapy, both one to one and group. It just sounds so fake and contrived.
‘Anger Management’ – not strictly speaking psychobabble but it’s so endemic now in therapists' repertoire of issues which they deal with that I’m including it. It really gets up my nose because it just perpetuates the lie that anger is a problem, something dysfunctional and generally unacceptable and has to be ‘managed’ ie controlled, stuffed, redirected, gotten rid of…
‘Projective Identification’. I still maintain that this doesn’t exist and I have yet to find anywhere a clear explanation of what it’s supposed to mean, nor how it’s conceivably possible that anyone can MAKE someone else feel their feelings for them. And even more irritating is that the phrase is bandied about as if everyone knows what it means, whereas no-one seems capable of defining it except to mean simply ‘projection’. Klein has a lot to answer for.
Lol that’ll do for now.
LL
‘Thank you for sharing that with me/us’. I hate this phrase, though I myself use it sometimes
. It depends on the context, but it particularly makes me want to vomit when it’s used in therapy, both one to one and group. It just sounds so fake and contrived.‘Anger Management’ – not strictly speaking psychobabble but it’s so endemic now in therapists' repertoire of issues which they deal with that I’m including it. It really gets up my nose because it just perpetuates the lie that anger is a problem, something dysfunctional and generally unacceptable and has to be ‘managed’ ie controlled, stuffed, redirected, gotten rid of…
‘Projective Identification’. I still maintain that this doesn’t exist and I have yet to find anywhere a clear explanation of what it’s supposed to mean, nor how it’s conceivably possible that anyone can MAKE someone else feel their feelings for them. And even more irritating is that the phrase is bandied about as if everyone knows what it means, whereas no-one seems capable of defining it except to mean simply ‘projection’. Klein has a lot to answer for.
Lol that’ll do for now.
LL
the phrase (combined with a "compassionate look")
"and how does that make you feel?"
"and how does that make you feel?"
'This is a safe space' never works with me but I'm sure it would over time. lol. It just never registers. 'Oh, yes, I'm sure it is. I'm sure no dinosaurs are going to eat me up in here. But thank you. I don't have life insurance just yet' is what I feel like replying to her. Lol.
quote:I'm sure no dinosaurs are going to eat me up in here. But thank you. I don't have life insurance just yet
ROFL!
quote:I don't have life insurance just yet' is what I feel like replying to her. Lol.
ROFL too! I might have to recycle that next time Cowboy says it.