Latetia shared -
✨ The key to actually love a melancholic or emotional being : don’t be so damn sensitive to their discomfort (and yours!) ✨
“This is one of the most common things in the upbringing of melancholic children or emotional children, that their parents become very uncomfortable with their emotional child being down or their melancholic child being sad.
Not only is the parent uncomfortable with it, but depending on the design, they may be deeply affected by it.
The melancholy, the sadness being lived out twice as strongly by the parent, or the emotional down being lived out by the parent, and then of course the parent is under pressure to eliminate that.
And so they want to make the child happy in order not to be unhappy themselves because they’ve fallen in to the conditioning of their child.
And then they get their child to make up reasons and when the reasons aren’t good enough, and when their reasons and answers aren’t good enough, and they hire a therapist to make up the reasons, and the psychologist to make up the reasons, it goes on and on and on—and there’s nothing wrong with the child.
By that time there is no question about that. Welcome to the age of Prozac.
The reality is that the moment you ask them is the moment you’re telling them something very basic. You’re saying to them you’re sick. You’ve got a problem because you’re unhappy and we’re going to fix it, whether you like it or not because there’s something wrong with you.
All individuals [indivudual
circuitry is naturally melancholic] know the hypocrisy of a happy life.
There is no such thing. There is life.
Whether it’s happy or not, good or not, right or not is really not the point. That’s all Maya.
It’s just life.
So protect your children who are emotional and protect your children who are individual and protect them by not being so damn sensitive to their discomfort.
Let them live out their discomfort and encourage them to see that you recognize there is nothing wrong with that.
“Oh, you’re sad today. Yeah, so what? Why don’t you go do something creative. It’ll be good for you.”
Don’t turn that into, “Oh, you’re sad today, let me make you happy.”
| you know Hu, who else?
| The clarion’s call - The melancholic child
| snatched from James Toon in the VIP Projector group - originally from IHDS
| pic by Matthew Henry
✏️ if only we could stop trying to fucking make ourselves and others happy and comfortable, to feel good, the Maya could possibly be a little more enjoyable… Even that offer/[suggestion] to be creative can be a huge trap. - Laetita
I’m adding a comment below about this last part.