Why Smart People Struggle With Feelings
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July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
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@woolybullybananapeel8642
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
✨Thanks!!!✨🐟🫧❤️
@LiopiTrinketman
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
You just unsans our Mung
@user-Tritotetc
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
The Fire is gone….
@RuinsOfMind
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
There's something almost mythological about how civilizations repeat the same psychological pattern — the overreach, the denial, the scapegoating, the collapse — across completely different cultures and centuries. Like the myth isn't a story about the past. It's a description of a loop we haven't broken yet.
@Ea-nāṣir_Inc
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
Goddamn I didn't know I was a genius 💯
@Conji
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
I only journal messily and I will never be ashamed to do so again.
@liammccoach5790
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
That first minute felt like a personal attack the way it showed up on my algorithm right after a break up
@Наварин-в9щ
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
Anyone else wish they had the time to emotionally regulate? I used to intellectualize my past and self, but currently, even though i wish i had time, i feel i have too little to unfortunately spend on myself…
@glizzygobblerninethousand
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
Six Seven! Six Seven! Six Seven!
@kaa-fc2
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
This is the kind of content people need to see.
@ErinLacey
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
Watching knowing full well you’re dumb 👀
@SorenTheGuy
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
Opened this video and heard my name as the first word, knew I had to watch it
@ottop_
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
Ik i am a nobody, but id like to share my experience through fellings, let me know if you identify yourself with this. Im not able to fall in love or create deep conections like everyone does, my mind doesnt let it happen, like a defense mechanism, its not like im anoying or anything like that, i do talk with a lot of people, but i just dont feel conected. It happened all my life, but know, i consciously decided to accept that im not able to. Since then, ive been being a lot colder and dry than i used to be.
@TadaHrd
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
After having made bad decisions, or rather not having made them at all, due to overthinking, I've decided that I no longer want to think about certain things.
It really is a curse to overthink doing something and then get scared and not do it.
@Bruh-sp2bj
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
Something something correlation and causation
@MissingTheManuals
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
I over-intellectualize to trick myself into thinking I am smart because I pretend to use analysis as an unhealthy coping mechanism for being emotional unintelligent rather than actually being intelligent which is worrisome because if I stop coping I will realize I lack both the emotional and analytical intelligence that I so dearly try to emulate. We are not the same (or we might be more similar than we know).
@RedHeadForester
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
I must intellectualise to understand and then I will know what I did right, what I did wrong, who to value and who to avoid and how to do better in the future. I must understand mine and other people's thinking mechanisms to intercept, avoid and correct current and future problems.
I have never had to deal with a situation as complex as the one I'm currently in. It's painful, time consuming and debilitating. My experience of therapy was someone asking me how I felt about a certain traumatic childhood or adult experience – a totally useless question for an autistic when not allowed a day or two to think about it! I want to know how I got where I am so I can intercept and course correct my thoughts in the future. I need to know who is to blame and who is not to blame for Every. Single. Incident.
@Slav_Cream
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
whys there so much paperclips in the comments
@MollyHart-zf5yu
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
incessant need to define, categorize, and hypothesize… 3:05
@henlo-fh5cb
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
What if you are just dumb
@Abdod
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
People click assuming they are smart to see if they struggle with feelings
I click knowing i struggle with feelings to see if im smart
@plus_rooms
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
We claim greatness, but how many of us will actually reach the summit?
@ColbyWanKenobi5
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
1:22 wow, I've never heard a better way to describe Anxiety. Just, wow
@Asimut30
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
I got completely confused by the controversial statements of pop-psychology.
As a result, When angry – I do not let myself process the anger via music or journaling, because I consider those “unnatural/coping methods”
@treentrasher8421
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
Camus mentioned? I love his book the myth of the sisphose
@TheBigChoomah
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
WHAT. I DONT. THIS SHIT MAKES ME MAD. AAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHH
@ATMOSK1234
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
As a troubled genius, this video was written for me.
@doomerzoomergloomer
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
Opening yourself up to feeling is too risky. Yeah you get the good but you get the bad too. I chose shutting all my emotions off completely. It’s kind of like living inside a glass box. You still see and hear everything but you can’t touch. You’re safe but not really living. The pain of failure and loss was too much to bear so now I live like this but I know it’s wrong and now I don’t know what to do. I’m just so empty.
@naasaaaahh
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
Watching hoping for confirmation that I'm smart (im not)
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@The-Disciple-first
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
There is a difference between being "Smart" and being "Smart"
One end is knowing a lot, having all knowledge, being a living storage device.
And the other is the ability to learn rapidly. Recognize patterns and intelligently put knowledge to use. To understand complex things in a clear way. To actually understand it.
@James_Comers
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
"Sorry bud but your not smart buddy"