To name a few:
- Intentionally demeaning, intimidating or otherwise aggressively manipulative behavior; especially gaslighting.
- People attempting to assert dominance over myself or others, and especially when aggressive abuse of any asserted is clearly apparent.
- People using coercion and even trying to trick me, into doing things they've convinced themselves are right for me, through whatever sense of entitled justification they've cooked up in their minds.
- People asserting what kind of contact they think I should have with perpetrators of abuse and injury inflicted on me. Also, people trying to trick me right into situations with those people, holy double whammy, Batman!
- Hauntingly familiar songs about too hasty exits. "All For The Best" by Mark Mulcahy. "Bye" by Elliott Smith.
 They are beautiful songs but best not popping up on my playlists.
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.”
— Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
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