A pop psychology concept critiqued as the 'single most dangerous lie' that can worsen problems by validating feelings without objective assessment, when sometimes people need to be invalidated to gain perspective.
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"One of the most emotionally liberating things I ever experienced was almost dying in a gruesome death in a hospital. It made me realize that years of therapy involving emotional validation were making my problems worse, not better. Just because a person has a problem that causes an emotional reactio"