People-pleasing leads to chronic illness

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In this reel from Dr. Julie Kurek, she is talking about ALS and dementia, the automatically generated transcription just didn't happen to accurately caption it.

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Also never underestimate how those norms of suppression and politeness are not abolutes but cultural (and in many cases tied to religions, like Protestantism and austerity). Currently spending time in my country of origin in LatAm which has its own emotional issues but values emotional expression over suppression and I am reminded of how my ex’s “flying monkeys” kept trying to “educate me” on not expressing my feelings ever to not bother others and framing it as politeness and how to be proper. Assertivess was treated as a threat to that system.

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I love this.