The Work (what exactly is the work??? unless this is explained with concrete specifics, it is meaningless)

Maybe that was true before, but it isnt now (assumption. often blatantly false)

It's over now (assumption. often blatantly false)

that's irrational (general shut down and dismissal, but often blatantly false. higher class way of calling something crazy. gives a false impression of intellectualism)

thats's just the [mental illness/pathology] talking (maybe or maybe not, but they do not actually think about it or engage with any reasoning. another easy general shut down and dismissal)

you just think/feel like/believe/perceive that (pathologizes knowledge by asserting that it is a disordered thought, feeling, belief, or observation)

take responsibility [for being abused/traumatized] (usually just victim blaming, and obscuring the responsibility of the abusing/traumatizing party if applicable, a subtle accusation. choosing to see a mental health professional is literally taking responsibility. at this point, what is "responsible" is so elusive that it has no actual meaning. what does an abused person do to "take responsibility" for that when the abuse is outside of their control, which is a key element of abuse and also trauma? ultimately it is a distraction and a re-delegation of the burden back onto the victim. without clear specifics, this means nothing)

negative thoughts/beliefs/feelings ("negative" within psychiatry and especially in this context, is synonymous with "false" and "sinful" and "sick" as in mental illness)

healing/recovery (this does not actually refer to what a mental health patient wants and needs to improve their life and quality of life, but to the desired traits and goals of their professionals. often it is characterized in such a way that suggests a kind of transcendence: you are barely a human being anymore you are so healed. nothing phases you. you are indifferent to life's horrors)

Trump Weird News - Fallacious Trump

where she's talking about how brains dont collect "objective" information because we are always subconsciously on the look out for certain things and ignoring other things, called pre-attentive processing. thats just a quick summary in my own words. very interesting and stuff but i bring it up because this kind of scientific framing of human beings being imperfect observers was used as another pillar of gaslighting on me.

whether you want to call it pre-attentive processing or confirmation bias or being over-emotional or cognitive distortions, when i said i was being abused at home because the patterns of abuse were present, therapists brought out that shit to gaslight me. they said there werent any patterns (they have absolutely no way of knowing this) and i was doing bad logic, bad observation, bad drawing conclusions, because of a confirmation bias type of victim mentality that filters my reality through my previous expectations. and they know this about me immediately. like literally i had a therapist use this shit on me in my 2nd or 3rd session with him ....???? show me your scientific crystal ball.

and absolutely nothing i said got them to even consider that i might just know whats happening to me because i live my own life. and i have done since birth. 24/7. and that the situation i was in matched the definition and characteristics of abuse. because it was abuse.

like. dude. who exactly is doing the confirmation bias here...? they absolutely refuse to even consider it for a moment. they immediately decide that i am wrong because im too crazy to know things, and i am too crazy to know things therefore i have to be wrong. because, well, mentally ill people always think people are out to get them and are irresponsible and act helpless all the time, right? and are sniveling little weasels?

and as someone who is already under immense scrutiny, when i say i know im being abused because the situation im in is verifiably abuse, they tell me im wrong and that im irrational. its so horrifying. happened all the time. who is imagining patterns right now? who is refusing to engage with reality in a way to actually figure out what is actually happening, not just immediately deciding if it's true based on prejudice? who is labelling me with loaded language and insulting words because i am saying something they refuse to hear?

human beings are imperfect. and also human beings are able to know if they are being abused at home. like why is the standard for me so astronomically high vs them making up things about me and then immediately believing it? why do i have to debate with blood sweat and tears about my ability to know anything at all vs them literally using their imagination to decide what the facts are, and im not allowed to disagree even though i objectively know more than they do about the subject?: myself???????

it gaslit me even though i was only roundaboutly called crazy. and the idea that gaslighters have to know you're right, but gaslight you anyway? is a problematic one i think because the therapists didnt know if i was correct or not. but they didnt care. its irrelevant. the facts do not matter. i have to be denied and dismissed no matter what. and im wrong because they decided so based on nothing. the effect is the same either way.

**ALSO btw im not accusing the ytber of anything it was just part of how i got onto this subject.

Actually, very rarely did a thought stopping technique simply stop my thoughts in their tracks and end that line of thinking. Im not saying its incorrect or anything to call it that, just that the "stop" part of "thought stopping techniques" can be more complicated than a fully functional shut down.