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I Don't Want to Be That. And That's Why I Can't Be That
A lot of people associate these words with extremes of mental conditions, them using them as slang is almost a reassurance to themselves that they're fine. It's something that we do a lot in life when we are faced with things that we don't like. And so if I can distance myself as much as possible from this thing that is making me uncomfortable and actually in the world of psychology, one way of talking about that is the shadow. Carl Jung coined that term, the shadow and the shadow is all the stuff about yourself that you don't want to look at or have any association with. We often project that out into the world. Sometimes it's helpful to think about the people that