personality disorder
Personality disorders are as complex as they are misunderstood; delve into this diagnosis and learn the typical cognitions, behaviors, and inner experience of those inflicted.
The Emotional Veto: How Feelings Can Overrule Reality
(Credit for Inspiration: Emily W. King) --- The Moment Reality Gets Interrupted There is a moment in many conversations when the subject quietly changes. At first, the conversation is about what happened. Someone lied. Someone neglected a responsibility. Someone crossed a boundary. Someone twisted the facts. Someone failed to follow through. Someone named an imbalance that had been avoided for too long. The issue is concrete enough to be examined. There are actions, words, patterns, responsibilities, and consequences on the table. Then the emotional reaction arrives, and the original subject begins to disappear.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast6 months ago in Psyche
When Validation Replaces Maturity
(Credit for Inspiration: Emily W. King) --- Validation Is Not the Same as Truth Validation has a proper place. People need to know they are heard. A person who is overwhelmed, hurt, afraid, ashamed, confused, or emotionally flooded often cannot immediately process correction, logic, or accountability. In those moments, validation can slow the room down. It can communicate presence. It can say, “Your pain is being noticed,” without requiring the person to defend every emotion before the conversation can continue. Used rightly, validation is not weakness. It is a relational tool that helps people stay connected long enough to face what is real.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast6 months ago in Psyche
The Difference Between Cruelty and Correction
Credit for Inspiration: Emily W. King) --- Pain Is Not Always Proof of Wrongdoing One of the most damaging confusions in modern relationships is the confusion between cruelty and correction. Cruelty is an act of contempt. Correction is an act of truth. Cruelty aims to belittle, punish, control, shame, or wound. Correction aims to bring reality back into view. The problem is that both can hurt. A cruel statement can hurt because it is vicious. A true correction can hurt because it exposes something that pride, comfort, denial, or fear would rather leave untouched. If the only standard is whether someone felt pain, then cruelty and correction become almost impossible to separate.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast6 months ago in Psyche
Men Are Not Afraid of Communication, Though They Are Tired of Punished Honesty
(Credit for inspiration: Emily W King) --- The Silence Is Not Always the Starting Point A common accusation in relationships is that men do not communicate. The complaint is familiar enough that it has become almost automatic. Men shut down. Men avoid hard conversations. Men refuse to open up. Men need to learn how to express themselves. There is truth inside that accusation when a man is careless, passive, immature, or emotionally absent. But the accusation often skips the more important question. What happened the last time he did communicate? What happened the last time he answered honestly, named the real issue, corrected the false assumption, admitted the painful truth, or said plainly what he had been trying not to say?
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast6 months ago in Psyche
When Truth Has to Protect Her Feelings
(Credit for Inspiration: Emily W. King) --- The Unequal Permission to Be Right There is a quiet double standard inside many modern conversations about relationships. Women are increasingly encouraged to stand on what they know, trust their discernment, speak their truth, hold their boundary, and stop shrinking themselves to keep peace. Men, however, are often given a different command. A man may also be right, but he is expected to find a way to be right that does not make the woman feel hurt, exposed, corrected, dismissed, insecure, embarrassed, or emotionally unsafe. The result is not equality. It is a conditional form of honesty where one person’s truth is allowed to stand directly, while the other person’s truth must first pass through the emotional response of the person receiving it.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast6 months ago in Psyche
Boundaries Changed My Friendships - Here’s Why. Content Warning.
2025 changed me. Not in the Instagram “I’m healing” type of way, but in a real, uncomfortable “I’m not tolerating certain things anymore” type of way. I’ve been learning how to set boundaries in my friendships and I’m not gonna lie… It’s been causing problems because people aren’t adjusting… and that’s when it hit me.
By Nathea Richardson6 months ago in Psyche
Why You Feel Tired All the Time in 2026 (And How to Fix It)
You woke up this morning after a solid seven and a half hours. Maybe eight. And still—that familiar heaviness. Like your limbs are filled with wet sand. Coffee helps for about an hour, then the fog rolls back in. By 2 PM, you’re staring at your screen, reading the same sentence four times. By 9 PM, you’re too exhausted to watch a movie but somehow too wired to fall asleep.
By Kamel Saidani6 months ago in Psyche
How Social Media Is Rewiring Your Brain Right Now
A few nights ago, I caught myself doing something that felt uncomfortably automatic. I was watching a show I’d eagerly waited all week to see—something with dense dialogue and slow-burn suspense—and less than three minutes in, my hand reached for my phone. Not because the show bored me. Not because I heard a notification. I just… reached. My brain wanted a hit of something faster, something that resolved in seconds rather than minutes. The show was too slow for a mind that had been trained on fast cuts, instant comments, and endless scrolls.
By Kamel Saidani6 months ago in Psyche
Ruled by Shame
I am not sure if you noticed when former AG Pam Bondi was being questioned by the House Judiciary Committee in February, and during other interviews, she would reply with huge negative emotional reactions and point her finger at the camera in defensive disgust at those questioning her cover up of the Epstein files. Forget the words that came out of her mouth for the moment and look at her nonverbal language (intense finger pointing and sneering). Most likely, she was mirroring how her parents, caretakers, and teachers scolded her when she was wrong in their eyes. In addition, characters like Stephen Miller and Todd Blanche also do quite a bit of finger pointing during interviews. Have you wondered why so many leaders in the Trump administration scold the camera and sneer at the interviewers with shame?
By Tony Martello6 months ago in Psyche
The One Who No Longer Absorbs the Bitter. Content Warning.
Please excuse the use of metaphors, symbols, and mythic writing. Please excuse the music I created with my own voice. Please excuse the AI generated metaphorical images of ancient times. Please excuse my filmmaker background. Please excuse my age of 76. Please excuse my abiliyu to want to keep learning which includes AI. Maybe I should crawl back in my 'dark night of the soul' depression. Pease excuse my love for science fiction, art, film, eccentric, and creating too many videos from visions I saw in my dreams. I know the majority of writers on this platform hate AI. So, the stories I create will not be read because you do not believe a 76 year old hippie child could create such nonsense. I do not write for naysayers and anyone who avoids being progessive. I have always been on the cutting edge of technology. I am a REAL LIVE HUMAN BEING.
By Vicki Lawana Trusselli 6 months ago in Psyche
