Feelings invalidated

Twitter

Don't dismiss, invalidate or minimize someone else's feelings or experiences just because you don't understand them. People's feelings are real and they mater, whether we understand them or not.

Dr. Michaela | Clinical Psychologist | Author on Instagram: "Who needed to see this? ⬇️ 🎨@thebraincoach Most highly sensitive people have grown up having their feelings invalidated. “Too sensitive” “too much”, “Over reacting”. We’ve heard it allll before, am I right? In the workplace, in our families, amongst our friends, teachers, even within our own minds our ability to think and feel deeply is usually (consciously or subconsciously) weaponised, positioned as a flaw. A nuisance. We accep

We all long to be seen, heard, and understood. But most of the time, I experience the opposite — invalidated.

"I can never tell if my feelings are valid."

One of the worst feelings you can experience is to risk communicating that you feel invalidated, and then have that request for it to stop also be invalidated. Being dismissed by indifference is wildly painful. You feel devalued, invisible and defeated ☼