A series of thoughts I noticed that might be familiar to some here.
“I don’t have emotions”
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“All my emotional presentations are fake”
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“If people treat me better for my fake emotions, it’s because I’m manipulating them”
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“I don’t deserve the sympathy I get”
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“I shouldn’t present any emotions in order to not extract underserved sympathy”
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“I don’t have emotions”
Obviously a lot of these thoughts are factually incorrect, but it doesn’t matter to my silly brain. Laying them out clearly like this helped me with it, so I hope it helps other people too.
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