Folk Club at BD’s last night. Four of us throughout the evening including the D who wanted to hang with me before her girlfriend arrived on their way back to Denmark. She’s gone to the bus stop to meet her and I’m feeling irritated, my space about to be invaded.
The D sits. The D reads. The D talks.
We have discussions. We go for coffee.
They’re back, I hear them come in. I’ll be careful what I say and do so I don’t give my game away…
Mentalizing is inferring a person’s mental state from their behaviour. Mentalizing is an imaginative, intuitive, and rapid emotional reaction to the mass of information each of us is subject to at any one time.
But not everyone can mentalize. Without this ability emotional regulation is impaired leading to relationships characterised by impulsive and unpredictable behaviour lacking in empathy – the state of mind this indicates? You work it out…
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