Yeah, true on both. I mean.. I guess I've used the terms either way but also understand the differences and appropriate usages of both.
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You are correct. The only truly incorrectly defined word in the list is the “pop psychology” form of “trauma”, which looks like it was just made up for the sake of the meme. “Gaslighting” is correct on both sides, but the two in the middle are actually being paired with different forms of the same word, so the definition is inherently different. Also, the definitions on the left are coming from a learner’s dictionary so they come across as stupid next to advanced definitions.
Not really. I've seen a lot of people overuse "trauma" that way. I'm biased, as I teach psych, but there really is an almost silly amount of misuse of terms that way. Hell, that Lind of language is misused in online communities all the time, by people trying to punch-up their own actually mundane boring lives to make it sound like they've "been through" more than they have.
Also "Antisocial" does not mean introverted. It means to react violently to social situations.
NPD rights!
Would have up voted but the lack of citation and pointless censorship pushed it over for me.
Would have up voted but the lack of citation and pointless censorship pushed it over for me.
Err.... The phrase "Gaslighting" came from the movie Gaslight.
The idea of being "Triggered" came from Trigger Warnings.
Psychology may have their own understanding of those terms, but I don't think it has the original usages or widest popularization.
Trigger warning came from the psychological term for situations or stimuli that bring on panic attacks or obsessive thoughts.
Okay, but didn't what happen in that movie in line with the actual psychology column?
Look this is an art imitating life imitating art discussion that I don't think its going to go anywhere, I'm just saying, on the one hand I appreciate the post trying to clarify things for people misusing these terms but on the other hand I don't think it's being honest with how they're being misused.
If someone doesn't lie to you and pretend it's not a lie, that can still be the start of Gaslighting and should be called out as quickly as possible so people know they can't do that.
That's not a misuse or problem that needs to be corrected just because it's not exactly what happened in a 1930s movie. Which is by the way still pop-culture not "actual" psychology.
A psychologist didn't come up with it, an artist/writer did. Science doesn't get to claim all authority all the time and humanity should be relearning the fact that art and culture DOES produce knowledge.
Posts like this, the dismissal of cultural or "pop" phenomena as less authoritive is part of why we don't - that's my problem with it, okay?