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So i was going through a pretty significant time owing to being gaslit by my manager who had convinced me that I was hurting people by taking on leadership role
by llamaLord 4y ago
So i was going through a pretty significant time owing to being gaslit by my manager who had convinced me that I was hurting people by taking on leadership roles because I was "crowding other people out and not giving them a chance to succeed"... Noting that my job is as a Snr Product Manager... So "leading" is kinda part of the gig, but I'd been convinced I was hurting people every time I suggested a change or improvement to what we were building etc.
Psychologist i went to was trying to get me to adopt a stance of "radical acceptance"... Which he described as basically "accepting that the world is a flawed place, and that there's actually nothing within your power to change it...".
Which... Apparently... For some people... Makes them feel better?
Needless to say that telling someone like me "hey man, the world's just fucked, but it's OK coz there's FUNDAMENTALLY nothing you can do to fix it... So you don't need to feel bad for just coasting along and not achieving anything..." Didn't help... At all... Actually just made me want to kill myself.