#CognitiveDissonance

Supporting a foreign ally that acts against your nation's interests creates cognitive dissonance, where actions conflict with beliefs.
To resolve this discomfort, parties might #rationalize their support by emphasizing shared ideology while downplaying or ignoring #conflicting interests.

If you want to #rationalize #chocolate as if it were medicine, think of it as a source of pleasure that contributes to good mental health. Enjoy it with your special #Valentine.
https://conscienhealth.org/2024/02/no-chocolate-is-not-really-medicine/

Now the #trans #erasure #police are #comingafter #theaterkids.

There is no #sane or #logical way to #rationalize this move. #Gender has been completely #irrelevant in #theater dating to #Ancient #Greece

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Texas #Education #TransKids #GayKids #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.losangelesblade.com/2023/11/09/now-the-trans-erasure-police-are-coming-after-theater-kids/

In my experience, people who #rationalize their crappy behavior by spinning it as "#MyTruth" typically aren't all that interested in hearing anyone else's "truth." Especially if #YourTruth or #TheTruth contradicts #TheirTruth.

#AbuseHasNoGender #NPD #BPD #BPD #narcissist #borderline #histrionic

The anger is instructive, it's good #countertransference data, but it's better to sit on that in the moment and work on it in #supervision than to let it color what I say to the patient, even if in the moment I can #rationalize my way to believing that it will be "important for them to hear" or whatever