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Learning to not be responsible for other people's feelings is the hardest thing I ever did in therapy. It's literally world-opening. I feel like the very nature of how I process thought shifted, I'm talking I don't even get the same outcome on the MBTI eval anymore (which supposedly doesn't change for much of someone's life).
Working through that trauma transmuted my interactions with people from Pollyanna into Dr. House. I don't give a shit what anyone thinks about me anymore, and I gradually learned how to thrive off other people's discomfort lol (which is just a narcissistic control tactic 50% of the time anyway... so go ahead, let them be uncomfortable)