[behnamoh]

My progress began when I stopped putting up with some jerk professors in my department and decided to just do what I wanted to do. The moment I stopped justifying the way they were treating me I realized just what an unhealthy dynamic I had put up with. Maybe I needed to get seriously offended in order to completely be done with that.

[dsugarman]

The thing is, you were probably getting offended often but not identifying your emotion, so it comes out in other weird ways. By identifying what was going on internally that you were surpressing, you were able to escape the toxic patterns you were contributing to. When you get good at that you can just share the emotion rather than acting it out too, which results in really positive and effective conflict resolution

[behnamoh]

That’s an interesting take, and you have a point, thank you!