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I hate pop psychologists I hate pop psychologists I hate pop psychologists I hate pop psychologists I hate pop psychologists I hate pop psychologists I hate pop psychologists I hate pop psychologists I hate pop psychologists I hate pop psychologists

There is nothing more I hate than the type of person that thinks they know you because they noticed you like the color purple or some shit. I already have enough social anxiety without wondering if people are analysing my every move and judging me for it.

ohnoes

(To clarify I don't hate real qualified psychologists, I hate armchair psychologists that think reading a single internet article and noticing a pattern makes them psychology Sherlock Holmes)

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[–] RedSturgeon@hexbear.net 14 points 6 days ago

If you think about it, this phenomenon of so called armchair psychology is really just a coping mechanism of the atomized members of society, that have been failed by their damaged relationship with their mother, now they attempt to cling onto it by taking up a perverse motherly role online, in an attempt to try to mend the deep hole in their heart that their mother left them with. zizek-theory

[–] Nopeace@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago

There's few things I can't stand more in this word than people who regularly use therapy speech in any context outside of therapy. Maybe it's cause I spent so much of my early adult life in various treatment programs that it feels like people are taking the absolute worst moments of my life and using them to feel special and quirky honk-enraged

Hi hello yes it's me Mr. Pop Psychologist, I am here to project my own unexamined biases and self loathing onto you, generalize from my own experiences because I assume you're just like me, and ignore everything I know about you as a person in order to make myself feel so sharp, astute, and perceptive. Please tell me I'm correct and marvel at my pyschoanalytical prowess or I will crash out at you for doubting my skills, because I have no self worth.

(And that's before I get into the phrenological implications of thy beak shape)

[–] OffSeasonPrincess@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago

To clarify I don't hate real qualified psychologists

I-was-saying

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 8 points 6 days ago

I underatand that not wanting to be labelled is a reasonable coping mechanism when you've been judged harshly, but you must realize by this point that you probably have an anti-psychology complex.

/s

[–] FishLake@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I got called an insufferable twit on here because I made a comment about how I like being a word-nerd. It’s apparently my whole personality. I wake up and flip through a thesaurus before telling my children I love them, but I use ten times the amount of syllables required. It’s ruining my marriage. My life is falling apart. This all happened nudiustertian.

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can't believe you have a vocabulary, that must be some deep seated mommy issue you have there/s

[–] FishLake@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just wanted her to show more philoprogenitiveness 😭

[–] techpeakedin1991@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 days ago

You wanted her to produce Greek pastry?

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

snorts cocaine this clearly means you want to fuck your mom and kill your dad.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Psychology as a field is already problematic because it only ever looks at things on an individual level and never a societal level. Pop psychology doesn't even bother to have a basic understanding of human behaviour before pretending to have "solved it"

[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

Psychology as a field is already problematic because it only ever looks at things on an individual level and never a societal level.

That's not true, but okay, lmao.

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Psychology as a field is already problematic because it only ever looks at things on an individual level and never a societal level.

Ahem...

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

Sorry, psychology in capitalist counties only looks at things on an individual level.

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The act of submitting posts to Hexbear implies a submission complex.

soviet-bottom

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

Post me harder daddy

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And here we see the dort owl indulging in their coping mechanism of posting blackbeard-writing

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

this is called gif reaction complex very-smart

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

smuglord Actually that's an animated WEBP.

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

is that pronounced webp or webp?

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago
[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm sorry your post is dripping in dark triad. Repetition? Dark triad. Use of emoji? That's a dark triad. Hatred of pop psychology? Yep you guessed it BIG dark triad energy

[–] Graphite2@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

emergence of a dark triad means one thing male spellcasters need to step up

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

Dort triad - piss, shit, and beans

[–] SnakeEyes@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you think about it weevils are a coping mechanism but we are not ready for that discussion yet

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

AAAAAAAGH throws weevils at you

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

"We need to talk about" no the fuck we do not

[–] Snort_Owl@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Its basically the normals doing their subtext bullshit but on crack. I treat it the same way I treat all normals when they say something stupid inferring a meaning that isnt there and stare at them blankly until they go away.

I dont know why we bothered creating language to not use it and instead spend hours hypothesising what someones intentions might be. This world pisses me off that i have to spin maximum cpu cycles in my head every day for this inference bullshit its so exhausting.

“Oh snort owl you cant say something directly or clearly it might hurt their feelings” ok sounds like a them problem. Truecrime did untold damage on the world by inventing random terms for some dude shuffling in a seat. “This is the shifting complex it means the cop has bored them to death which means guilty”

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

*poimts at seagull* Repressed trauma

[–] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

Hmm is this performative male behavior?