Reassurance seeking—the tendency to repeatedly ask others for confirmation, validation, or certainty about our thoughts, feelings, relationships, or fears. While a minor dose of reassurance is completely normal in human relationships, excessive reassurance seeking (ERS) can quietly transform into a trap, maintaining anxiety and straining the very connections we value most. Learn more
In psychology, there is an explanation for the phenomenon where you don't want to see people, and they become a source of stress for you. You see what they do, how they do it, what they say, and you dislike all of it. You choose to isolate yourself. In such cases, who holds the problem—you or the people around you?
Logic doesnt always change minds. What causes the brain to protect a wrong opinion instead of just accepting new information?
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Humans, a deeply communal and social creature, have created a culture that literally goes against our entire biology. Comfort is something children receive, exclusively. Adults thar need it are weak, and need to figure out their own issues and toughen up.
Edit: release*