#avoiding confrontation

[furiousgoldfish]

for the abused children life is just being tortured and broken for most inane things like being sad or needing attention or making a face someone doesn't like, and then when you despite all efforts grow up, you're supposed to suddenly know how to stand up for yourself?? you're supposed to negotiate your salary?? tell people OFF?? without feeling like you will be crushed to the inch of your life if you even look at someone wrong?? what on the gods good earth

[lonelyfox16]

Coach beard waiting till the literal plane door closes to avoid confrontation is literally me.

[katiekovaleski]

The Art of Confrontation: Resolving Conflict Through Direct Communication

Introduction:

The idea of confrontation is frequently seen as unpleasant and threatening, conjuring up images of contentious debates and strained relationships. Confrontation has a particular significance in the context of mental therapy. It turns into a crucial instrument for development, self-awareness, and recovery. The art of confrontation in therapy involves deftly handling challenging discussions with empathy and candour, producing dramatic results for people seeking mental wellbeing. In this essay, we'll examine the effectiveness of therapeutic conflict and how it can foster growth and emotional healing.

Therapeutic Confrontation: An Understanding

Confrontation is the process of openly addressing and debating delicate subjects or troubling behaviours that impede human development in the context of mental treatment. It gives the therapist the chance to help the patient gain a deeper comprehension of their feelings, thoughts, and behavioural patterns. Instead of placing blame or passing judgement, therapeutic confrontation aims to create a secure environment where the client and therapist can both explore their vulnerabilities and collaborate on effective change.

The advantages of conflict:

Confrontation exposes blind spots and helps people recognise and accept elements of themselves that they might have previously avoided or ignored. This promotes self-awareness. Clients can better understand their emotions, motivations, and underlying problems causing their mental health troubles by addressing uncomfortable realities.

Overcoming defence mechanisms: To protect themselves from emotional suffering, many people adopt defence mechanisms. However, these techniques frequently prevent real interactions and personal development. These obstacles can be broken down by skillful confrontation, allowing clients to explore their vulnerabilities and create more effective coping mechanisms.

promoting emotional development: By confronting unhelpful behaviours, mental patterns, and belief systems, confrontation can promote significant emotional development. People can develop new ways of thinking, feeling, and reacting to life's obstacles by looking at the causes of these patterns and working through them.

Confrontation can initially be uncomfortable, but it ultimately enhances the therapeutic partnership between the client and the therapist. Building trust and making clients feel supported on their path to recovery through open and honest communication. The therapeutic relationship transforms into a secure setting where people can communicate their worries, annoyances, and aspirations without worrying about being judged.

The Practise of Effective Confrontation:

Competence, sensitivity, and respect for the client's particular experiences are necessary for effective therapeutic confrontation. Here are some important factors to think about:

Making a safe space: Confrontations that are beneficial require the creation of a safe, judgment-free atmosphere. Throughout the process, clients must feel listened, understood, and appreciated.

Therapy staff members need to actively listen to their patients, picking up on both verbal and nonverbal clues. This enables them to comprehend the client's viewpoint more thoroughly and adjust their strategy as a result.

Empathy and compassion: It's crucial to approach conflict with empathy and compassion. It fosters an atmosphere where clients can explore their vulnerabilities without worrying about rejection or criticism by making them feel supported and understood.

Pacing and timing: Confrontation should be handled delicately and at the appropriate time. While delaying confrontation may impede growth, rushing into difficult subjects can overwhelm customers. Based on each person's level of readiness, skilled therapists decide when and how quickly to have a confrontation.

Conclusion:

In mental therapy, the art of confrontation is a potent instrument for personal growth, healing, and self-discovery. Therapists help people build healthier coping mechanisms, self-awareness, and emotional growth by deftly tackling difficult topics. Clients can explore their vulnerabilities in a secure environment during therapeutic confrontation, which also strengthens the therapeutic partnership and challenges dysfunctional patterns. As people master the art of conflict, they start a transforming process.

[juniemunie]

[Abandoned by the Lightners, his heart became cracked with hatred.]

Hitting a lil' too close to home?

[insanethrottlebikernews]

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[sensitiveheartless]

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[anirritant]

pmd2 darkrai is funny to me why is he like that

[papercutslut]

"I still love ya"

[vodid]

zero's pressure

[alwaysbewoke]

the lies white people tell themselves to escape accountability and a real adult conversation on race, racism and history is just so sad smfh

[canisalbus]

What is the one thing that bothers each other on their lover?

Not huge icks, but small bothers?

Vasco can be forgetful and a bit irresponsible. And even if he means well, he sometimes comes across inconsiderate, he just doesn't always think things through. He's usually very sure of himself, stubborn and resistant to accepting advice if he thinks he knows what he's doing. Occasionally he misreads the situation and his attempts to lighten the mood misfire so severely, it's like he's incapable taking things seriously.

Machete has a nitpicky control freak side to him that gets more pronounced when he's stressed. He's prone to bottling up his emotions and then feeling misunderstood when people can't read his mind. He finds a way to blame himself for everything and is a chronic over-apologizer.

[podcastenthusiast]

The way BG3 approaches revenge is so interesting. It never says anyone is wrong to kill someone who's done them harm, but it does say that doing so alone won't fix the trauma.

Aylin just feels empty after killing Lorroakan. Astarion admits killing Cazador didn't feel how he expected it would either; he feels numb for a while and it changes his perspective on things. Karlach kills Gortash and it isn't satisfying, because he never felt sorry for the life he took from her and now she has to grapple with how little she has left.

Again, they weren't wrong to crave that catharsis and the safety it brings them. But revenge is never the end of healing. It's only the beginning. Choosing to live again is maybe the best revenge there is.

[atelierlili]

Katniss is the kind of person to invite Peeta over for dinner and tell no one (except maybe Prim) then get pissed off when someone asks why he’s here. (Because she invited him, dummy 🤬)

Eventually people just stop asking why Peeta’s following her around like a puppy in fear of retaliation. Even when he comes stumbling out from her bedroom in the morning and continues to do so for the next thirty years.

[guardian-angle22]

911: Lone Star | Carlos "I Don't Avoid" Reyes

[s0fter-sin]

soapghost circus au

ghost’s an extreme motorcycle stunt performer - globe of death, riding on his back wheel along tightropes, that sort of thing

soap’s a fire breather/dancer. he’s a roaming performer; he just finds empty spaces or bored people and starts twirling

he pretends not to notice the way he always wanders towards a certain tent every night to watch a certain masked daredevil defy gravity. he thinks he's slick and that ghost won't notice him in the crowd, completely forgetting that he's carrying something that happens to be on fire

ghost couldn't miss him if he tried

one day off, soap's trialing fire whips; he loves the loud crack and the way the flame licks through the air and maybe he's a little too impatient to practice with non flaming whips first, even though he's never used one before

he's covered in soot and fine welts where the tip of the whip keeps flicking back up at him, cutting through his shirt and stinging his skin but he doesn't let that stop him. it starts to stick to him, damp with sweat and blood and he's quick to strip it off; throwing it to the side to keep practicing

when soap finally gets a few good cracks in a row and breaks to celebrate, he almost jumps out of his skin when he sees the masked rider leaning against a trailer watching him

of all the times he's wanted ghost to talk to him, this is not one of them

he wanted to impress him, dance for him with his flaming batons and be mesmerised by his fluidity and skill

not catch him filthy and struggling with something as basic as a whip

he's ready for ghost to ream him out for not having control over the whip - he's known throughout the circuit for expecting utter perfection in his routines - but when ghost finally does speak, it's only to ask if he's done for the day

soap falters for a moment. he wanted to get some consistency with the whip before he stopped, but he's starting to feel the hours of practice; muscles aching and skin blistered with minor burns

he says he is and ghost pushes off the trailer, nodding his head to make soap follow. he brings him back to his trailer and tells him to clean up then takes out his personal med kit to treat the grazes on soap's skin

soap's shocked; for all that he loves to watch ghost perform, they've never really talked before

part of why he joined the circus was so he wouldn't be a burden on anyone, the oldest in a family with too many mouths to feed and not even time to nurture, and here he is taking up ghost's valuable practice time bc he wasn't good enough to handle his own discipline. he tries to brush him off, downplaying the burns and tries to leave before half them can be treated but ghost just glares and orders him to sit back down

ghost does expect perfection from himself but it isn’t out of any malice or ego; it's bc he knows if he isn't perfect, he could very easily die. he’s picked a dangerous profession and he gives it the respect it deserves. there isn't any shame in being a novice or failing at something; he thinks there's a lot of beauty in having the courage to get back up again and again

so every day he watches soap practice and bullies him into his trailer to put him back together bc he knows he won't do it by himself

and every night soap wanders over to ghost's section of the fair grounds, in awe of his skill and wishing he could be worthy of the care he gives him

[prolibytherium]

Would kill to read animal POV fiction that has the animal POV’s interaction with humans be like, semi realistic to the level of caution most predators take with large prey and/or competitors (including humans).

Like instead of the usual - “the human is such a weak, pathetic creature... so slow, no claws, blunt teeth… completely helpless without its 'Fire Sticks'. how is it the master of the earth?” type crap it’s like, the bear protagonist or whatever approaches some dude who spreads their arms and yells and the bear is like “FUUUUUUUUCK THAT THING JUST GOT HUGE. IT'S LARGE AND MAKING NOISES. HOLY FUCK.”