Mindful, trigger, boundaries, etc.
People need to stop taking the terms they learn in their therapy sessions and wrongly apply it in the real world. It’s annoying. They have a session or two and run with it.
Mindfulness is a type of therapy to help people who have anxiety, maybe autism or depression, compulsive behavior. People who tend to act first instead of stopping for a second to access a situation.
This is a real trend, and it's mostly negative, because people are applying fairly specific terms like
sociopath,
gaslighting, toxic, boundaries, narcicisst, love bombing, into these much wider areas, labeling people as toxic or whatever, who did something fairly benign. Like two people recalling events differently or through different emotional contexts, is not gaslighting someone. Not everyone's ex is "toxic". Coming up with insanely rigid standards for going on a first date, is not really what having boundaries is about.
but the jargon speak lends it undeserving credibility.
like I went through rehab when I was 21, spent time in jail, spent time in halfway house for years, so I learned all this self help shyt the hard way, when I was young, but most people are using the terms incorrectly, and without any actual self reflection, which is really what these are about.