Why do you have a mean voice in your head?
Because of all the mean voices outside my head
Are you sure that’s not the median voices?
I’d rather switch to a different mode.
This is indeed correct according to psychology. We need to push back against the inner critic that develops as a result of criticism from others.
I don’t actually have this i just have the “remember that time you spilled soagehtti out of your pockets in front of EVERYONE???!!! well, it’s going to happen again” voice.
I mean… stop carrying spaghetti in your pockets?
If you do that, i.e shy away from being embarassed by removing zny opportunities to embarras yourself, life becomes dull and you fail to grow as a person!
and in case you didn’t know, it’s a metaphor
Ah, I didn’t know about the meme and thought you were talking about literal spaghetti for some reason… I say “I thought” but I clearly didn’t do it right
It’s okay, it’s good advice 🤣
The mean voice in my head is actually my parents :(
omggg sameeeee
I mean they clearly already has a hobby.
My mean voice is usually right though. We’re both pathetic lol
If the mean voice is so right, why did it let you do something “wrong” to begin with, huh? It ain’t that right - besides, hindsight is always 20-20 so it’s way too easy to be “right” after the fact.
Well, someone has to beat me up to keep me going and trying to do better. Not like anyone else is going to do that.
Me and my mean voice just direct that anger at y’all. It gives me great things to say that I don’t say out loud. Usually. Except in traffic.
My inner critic is brutal. It uses all my intelligence against me, and will always find enough wiggle room to where I can’t really outright debunk any of its claims. Even if I do, it doesn’t acknowledge it in any way, it just picks another vector of attack. It was pivotal for me when I realized it wasn’t trying to argue with me or improve my behavior. It doesn’t care about truth or evidence, its only mission is to make me feel like the worst shit ever shat. It only welcomes argument because that gives it attention and more room to attack. Once I realized I had been playing by the wrong rules, I could actually start moderating it. Not by telling it to shut up, but by pointing out that I can see what it’s doing. I can just let it yammer on, and it hates that I don’t engage with it. It hates to be seen for what it is, because it sounds fucking ridiculous, especially when it gets desperate. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Having an inner critic is important, but if your parents dialed yours up to eleven, you just might want consider what the actual rules of engagement are.
Anyone who had issues with that inner voice needs to watch Revolver directed by Guy Ritchie.
I cant believe that one of his second rate films was so helpful to my mental health.
