I mentioned the other day to an online friend that someone had suggested I may be ''paranoid''... this friend (as with most of my friends) disagrees with this, and mentioned they felt quite shocked by that ''suggestion''... I appreciate it when people tell me the truth (rather than suggesting things about me which are not true, a someone irl who ''should'' have known better

I was describing a situation and a feeling I had a few years ago, that same situation that a someone irl used to tell me I was ''paranoid'.... this was not particularly helpful to me, or even true. And it was not said with compassion.

Papa bear tells me the truth, with compassion.

(unlike anyone in the ''family'' of origin