Tag: mental health
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I have encountered this scenario repeatedly throughout my career: someone becomes convinced that another person’s eyes visibly “changed,” “went black,” or “went dark.” What surprises me is how often this experience becomes interpreted as evidence of a supernatural or spiritual force. I have worked with individuals in abusive relationships whose partners describe themselves as spiritually…
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Scroll through almost any social media thread and you’ll see a familiar pattern. Someone shares something that genuinely feels terrifying or deeply important to them. Within minutes, the responses shift—not toward understanding, but toward positioning. Credentials get listed. Certainty increases. Emotions escalate. And somewhere in that process, the original point—the human experience that started it…