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Emotional Contamination Explained
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You can start a conversation feeling fine, then walk away flooded with shame, anxiety, guilt, or self doubt that wasn’t there five minutes ago. That whiplash is the doorway into emotional contamination: the quiet process where we end up carrying feelings that don’t actually belong to us, and we don’t realize it until our confidence drops and our thinking gets foggy.
I unpack how this can form early through mentalization, when caregivers help children make sense of big emotions, and what happens when someone never learns to tolerate their own inner world. When shame, envy…
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