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Mental health
fromPsychology Today
13 hours ago

Why Highly Intelligent People Stay in Toxic Relationships

Highly sensitive, gifted adults often remain stuck in toxic relationships due to parentified roles, deep empathy, and intellectualizing that normalize dysfunction.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

Why Knowing Everything Keeps You From Feeling Anything

Overintellectualizing serves as an avoidance strategy that prevents emotional presence and blocks the actions and bodily signals necessary for meaningful change.
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