YES!!!!!!! Maybe it's that fear of being secretly despised. People with ADHD, personality disorders, and any kind of trauma might become really sensitive to others' possible emotional cues, but then interpret them in in ways that are definitely projection, i.e., "if I hate me, then you must too."
Is everything we experience going to be chalked up to some kind of disease or diagnosis? I had no idea RSD existed. I just thought rejection made me feel really bad.
This is going to be one of those videos I can watch again from time to time because of it's practical value to a person like me who forgets how this projection thing is taking him for another ride😎
I’ve been working on self awareness and learning how we as human beings are more connected than we realize. I try to catch myself when I’m projecting negative stuff and step back, like, “ wait what if this was said / done to you . “ Love your videos Dr. Marks . They’ve taught me so much !
@@noelbob1157 sometimes it feels like so, even though I have no religion, sometimes I know some things aren't a coincidence. This video fell from the sky to me
I just started reading "the origins of you' and it's all about origin wounds that come out in adult relationships and behaviour. They note that key hint that it's an old wound coming up is that intense reaction, just as you said. It's an interesting read (I would assume it's the same vein of the narrative story book you recommend )
If someone is projecting, sometimes discussing how wrong they are is a waste of time. Sometimes it isn't worth having a drawn-out conversation about it. Just say what you have to say and leave it alone. Having a conversation grow into a huge argument isn't worth it. In a way, you have to pick your battles. I like the video.
Exactly. It becomes a circular argument that the projector draws you into, knowing that they’re only gonna respond to their own cognitive dissonance and bias anyway. I have friends, cousins, siblings like this. You try to ignore, but they just try even harder to draw you in. At some point you just stop giving AF.
@@mick20075 It's interesting how your mind made a connection to someone's experience and solution to projection to God. Do yourself a favor and question where that may stem from. It's not an answer that can be answered quickly, and I don't expect you, nor do I want a response, since it's a question that can only be answered from experience and learning more about your brain's narrative.
It's not really a tool. It's more of a subconscious thing everyone does that shows what is in their own heart. For example, if you know you always have good intentions to always do the right things, you will be more inclined to believe that about others also. So sometimes we all have to make a conscious effort to view reality as it is, and not just project what we would do or how we feel, because thats the natural thing to do.
We’ve got to stop the narcissism stigma. I have faced my flaws and dealt with some of my own projections. Yet I still struggle with projection sometimes. It’s HUMAN.
People have got to stop labeling people as narcissists. Any person can have this trait. Every single human being is intuitive- some are right, some are wrong. People who have inferiority complex, assume things and start projecting onto others. Either you can hold the person accountable by asking non-attacking questions or simply leave the relation for your own mental peace!
@@ej5000narsists allready make propaganda about themselves, we dont need random people saying people are narsisists=say if its the ovbios=try helping to see if some1 is a hideing 1,(theyre the true/real threte to every1/sociaty=ww2=the cold war=europe attacking every1 after 1200s=turky attacking,i forget their name=isreal attacking palistine.).
This is video could not have come at a better time. I think my partner and I struggle with this. Thankfully it feels more like projecting anger onto me in order to defend me from someone else. He has a kind heart, we are workong on it, and I know it comes from a place of love.
"You can't pick a good day for a picnic" hit home for me 😂 I always worry what I've suggested will turn out bad and be an inconvenience to others. Despite that I tend to enjoy whatever happens and I appreciate things as they are, even if the weather or whatever is not ideal, so I'm not sure why I fear others will be unhappy and that it will be my fault. 🤔Psychology is so interesting. Thanks for the insight, Dr. M!
It's also harming patient-therapist relations when therapists use their knowledge of projection to wrongly categorize statements of a patient as a defense mechanism. This can lead to therapists forming problematic biases towards their patient because of misapplication of psychological concepts.
Funny, I had this issue with a previous therapist of mine but I didn't know how to bring it up 😭 I gave them reasons for why I didn't want to do certain thing, but they insisted it was because of stereotypical reasons (ie: meds take away "creativity", which is a stereotype)
I think this is along the lines of what I’ve experienced recently with my therapist Upon being terminated, after enduring the most horrific psychological abuse in the workplace discarded and Left feeling degraded, dehumanized, dejected, disgusted, etc. I reckon mental health providers that don’t know about the social psychology of workplace, bullying and mobbing can easily conclude that their patient is over embellishing or fabricating. I digress, being sucked into a world aware as the narrative grows, your voice, becomes more and more diminished, and you kind of don’t even know what reality is versus not, you depend on your therapist, who has been with you through the whole process to help makes sense of your experience. But then met oddly with comments such as I think you’re upset with me because I’m unable to make any assessment of the situation, as I’m only able to see it through your perspective and not the others. Which is perplexing because I reckon that it doesn’t matter what the other perspective is, the therapist could help me buy a tuning to what my experience was. and once Yuen ceremoniously terminated in my body, feeling like these visceral responses that I get when entering that particular environment or thinking about it, our symptoms of anxiety and trauma being told that they reckon that I’m not looking for work as a form of punishment for the way I was treated. But I don’t understand how that punishes my former employer, and if anything Mina entering the workforce actually punishes the innocent patients no longer have their provider and not the coworkers who aligned with the bully and joined in via mobbing. So the whole projection concept is so confusing to me. I wonder if my therapist somewhat odd responses came from a subconscious need to align with the perpetrator given that she is an employee of the university which inflicted the psychological violence, almost like a conflict of interest since majority of the actions in bowling and mobbing, are indoctrinated via subconscious mechanisms
This is such a good explanation, thank you! I've been surprised when someone accused me of something they did themselves and which I had not done. It was confusing.
Is the background footage from Psych2Go? That's another great channel to watch! Doctor Ramani is also my go-to for anything dealing with NPD. You three ladies should do a roundtable discussion. That would be, just, HEAVEN!
I doubt it's from Psych2Go. My editors purchase licenses from stock video sites. But speaking of Psych2Go, Dr. Ramani and I were on a livestream together with them sometime last fall. The replay should still be on their channel.
This doesn't take into account when people are genuinely abusive and insulting and you don't understand why people, plural, are that way routinely toward you. It's not always projection.
@@Eskedebefore you judged that people are genuinely abusive, have you done everything within your own power to optimize your own mood, including optimal sleep hygienes, consistent vigorous exercise routine, and healthy diets?
@@Eskede you don't practice metabolic psychiatry, vagus nerve cluster stimulation using Valsalva maneuver during powerlifting, optimize dopamine reserve using morning routine, and circadian medicines. You're making up excuses for your lack of self responsibility, and I know how I developed away from my own chronic depression.
Nope, this is too easy of an assumption. We also spot things if we have recognised those traits within ourselves amd when we have already accepted them and released judgment from them. Its not always unwanted traits. When you know yourself (light and dark) then you basically know everybody else because we are all expressions of the ONE conciousness. The thing is that of the other person has not yet released their judgment on that same trait they will lie amd deny. So IMO its better to go by your own objective discernment then assuming others are going to be truthful to us.
I’ve been binge watching your videos and love them all. But this video speaks volumes to me. My partner does all these things 😢 and it has become exhausting. She is overly critical of ANYTHING…. And I do mean ANYTHING I say. When I try to give her kind words, she hears something else. For example, the other day, I said, “Hey babe, make sure you drink enough water or Gatorade, it’s going to be a very hot day.” Mind you, I said this because she was going to a baseball game. We live in Florida. She says “WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I DON’T DRINK WATER! WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT! YOU THINK YOU ARE BETTER THAN ME!”😳😩🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️. SMH. I’m to the point where I just stay silent.
Really wish someone would address how our nervous systems are not built to handle the global catastrophe, multiple genocides and damage from capitalism. We are ALL overeacting under the strain.
We evolved in chaos. This is just another manmade form of the chaos. We cannot help what happens to us, but we can help how we react and control our own narrative…
@@ericB3444taper off, I went with one day on, one day off and when I felt like I was adjusting to that, I’d start taking it once every 3 days and eventually got myself down to taking it once a week for like 2 weeks and eventually got off. It took a couple of months but I think that works better than stopping too quickly
When it comes to projection, I have noticed some patterns about this particular defense mechanism. 1. Individuals who fight racism are often accused of being racist themselves. 2. Individuals who fight against bullying are often accused of being bullies themselves. 3. Individuals who fight against narcissism are often accused of being narcissistic. 4. Individuals who take a moral stand against bad people are often accused of being “bad” or problematic. 5. Individuals who take a moral stand against someone who’s crazy are often accused of being crazy themselves. And the list goes on and on.
Wow this hit home, I'm in the middle of something, trying to evaluate if it's all in my head or if my suspicions are true. I am seeing now it's a bit of both and that one thing feeds into the other. Thank you Doc, now I am clearer on what I need to do.
I’ve had to deal with someone frequently in the past that does this and continually caused adversity in the relationship. Due to their lack of self-awareness, I had no other choice but to just limit my time around them.
So if I believe that someone in my family is not being upfront about how they resent me but can't say anything about it, does this mean that I am projecting this fear of being a resented outcast onto her. How do you deal with this honestly? Could this mean that she is actually projecting her fear of being something she could never allow herself to be onto me? I guess I am very insecure and I am trying to read people's minds to forecast the future as usual. As a child, I did this with my father because of his scary mood swings.
You’re my favorite online mental health expert now. I can’t explain how I love your content. I watched a lot of your stuff and livestreams. I would absolutely love to interview you one day. 💛😊
I see this all the time. I work hard at self awareness to prevent myself from doing the same. I learned about projection in HS psychology 101. It’s fascinating.
You can read other peoples emotions accurately though. It's facial expressions, tone and body language and they can be read and the majority of humans do this. I think that needs to be said too Also, ever thought maybe people are bad? Can't always say it's because of projection if you are seeing someone's bad qualities. People's bad qualities do exist. Mainly didn't agree with the statement "you spot it, you got it". As it can be misinterpreted Otherwise, the content of this video is really good for anyone dealing with projection. Thanks Dr.
This video is very helpful Dr👩⚕️.Marks. I think one of my issues growing up(a topic I never discussed with a single doctor👩⚕️ or 🧑⚕️) would have been the gang culture,the color red & blue during the 90's(my neighborhood was a blue neighborhood & to minimize confusion one of older brothers neighborhood was the red,he's aged so it's really not something he focuses on anymore). In my case I felt I had to be a apart of it to be accepted amongst my peers not knowing how dangerous it could be & the consequences that comes with wanting to be a part of & accepted by my peers,it may be sad,but I still feel that I need to feel that acceptance from that group of individuals. As far as it being projected onto me,just going outside & seeing what was in my environment(The color blue was so flamboyant in the 90's in my neighborhood,even though it's no longer that time anymore, the color red was not acceptable in my neighborhood, you had to know someone to wear that color back then). There really is no answer or resolution to me being subjected to the type of projection I was subjected to in my youth,I felt like I adapted to my environment & the color blue actually has a positive meaning & purpose to it, it's also evolved & grown overtime. This was another informative video Dr.👩⚕️,Thank You.
Thanks for this video, it definitely resonates with me. I have ADHD and BPD, this happens a lot with me, but I'm working on it. Luckily my partner has the patience of a saint. 😀
Thank you Dr Marks for breaking that down into a very understandable way, I was stunned to see where I have been doing exactly this and how I can see the difference between myself and others I feel quite liberated and grateful to be able to see it.
Lived exactly this. Person would say, "you think xyz and that's the problem." The other party would become angered when I told them they were way off base. I'd even be accused of lying.
I suggest if your team can cut the live videos into shorts each has only 1 question and answers it will be amazing help for many who couldn't get their question answered while it was answered already in the live video but can't listen to that long video or spot their question in it
Hey you're probably not needy. You have needs and they're not being met because you may not know what those needs are or how to meet them. I would recommend self compassion exercises and learning your own needs so you can figure out how you will meet them 😊
Social anxiety has doing this, but i think it's also the derealization/depersonalization that makes it even harder for me to read people. Thank you for doing this video. I have been noticing that i do this and I'm hardly ever right about people.. It gets pretty lonely.
This is a great video, Tracey! How do you differentiate between projection and poor mentalization? Have you met/trained with Peter Fonagey (creator of MBT)? I'm looking forward to getting better at mastering my sleep. Thanks so much for your content! Have a great weekend.
I have the rejection sensitive dysphoria and ADHD, social isolation due to anxiety. Recipe for disastrous relationships. I try so hard not to be influenced by outside validation. I have alienated almost all of my neighbors. I do have people in the neighborhood I speak with but I am always on guard that I will say the wrong thing and alienate them. Exhausting and I'm Exhausted! I've ended up self isolating just so I won't be further rejected.
Good info but was the "... even though he thought she had let herself go after the children. " bit of detail necessary? Now I'm wondering if she had subconsciously picked up on that which added to her insecurity. He's obviously judging her appearance which most likely effects some of his behavior towards her.
Perhaps too much detail, but I wanted to show he's not without his own negative thoughts, even though they weren't factoring into the current situation of complimenting his sister in law. But good pick up. She could have believe he thought that because of how he made her feel about her looks.
@DrTraceyMarks I understand but this feeds into the women's "am I enough/am I doing enough?" question that society has stressed is a woman's concern and a man doesn't bother with.
Is there a danger of over-self-reflecting? When someone projects onyo me, usually I will step back and ask, "Is this person right?", even though I feel pretty confident they are not. How do I know when to check this behavior in myself?
All of this is so confusing. So much inferring, and assigning intentions that aren't there. And it feels like every psychology concept overlaps with every other one. To make it worse, I swear that most people using these terms are using them wrong, just to win an argument or feel good about themselves. I just take the stance of "if you speak clearly and honestly, without inferences, then we can skip 99% of these 'concepts' ". And yet, I feel naive or childish, because "just be honest" gets called childish. This sucks.
I’m done with relationships, I always ended up feeling like a therapist on the partners internal issues, but I never Wanted that. I’m know it’s also my fault to allow connections wrong connections. Dr. Marks have a hint on how not to be a therapist, but I’d like to if there’s a video on that topic.
Hey why have you not talked about "Hatesturbating" there are no videos about this topic at all? My girlfriend has been suffering from this for years ever since she was a child Even know and we want to know how to stop it.
I broke up with my boyfriend because of this, he said im always looking at other men and that i cheat on him and thats not true at all, I doesn't matter what i say or do about our relationship because he has "see me' 😵💫
This is hard for me to ascertain completely, as I was indeed raised in a slightly tumultuous and enmeshed, gaslighting family. My siblings, mother and grandmother are enmeshed. It's disgusting. My mom and I are slowly breaking those barriers. But being 28 now, and after having serious momentous breakthroughs to the point I've almost disconnected from the enmeshment.... I now face every day scenarios in which I "may" be projecting but the enmeshment trauma in my family is overtly visible (only to me and my mother) and since I have quite literally completely changed from the inside out, at least my mindset and priorities6 (oh yesss I still have shadow work integration to work on)..... I am constantly being scrutinized and have received mssgs that u know, I am the one causing these rifts and difficultiesbwhen it makes me feel like and actual crazy person, because these people LITERALLY cannot even SEE their enmeshment playing out in every day life. So they treat their life in accordance with their "trauma" that they don't even realize can be something integral to your growth as a human being. Anyway I digress I love ya Dr. Marks
Everyone projects and instead of viewing as an innate bad or defensive quality, I’d instead reframe it and say that projection is extremely important in predicting behavior. Also, I think projection can also point to fears. Whenever I’ve been in fear the most (I have OCD), I saw it everyone and believed it was manifesting. So, it is not always who you are but what you are afraid of becoming or simple fear in general.
What if someone is projecting that you're projecting? If you double-checked by asking the suspected person for specificities, like you mentioned in the video -- would they be able to respond? The guy I know can't even give me a vague example, so I'm left wondering if I really have zero self-awareness or if I'm being taken for a ride
After reading the comments I’m convinced allot of you refuse to believe you are narcissistic. I have learned through experience that’s trauma can cause a person to be narcissistic. Especially if they were not getting what they emotionally needed at the time of their relationship. Now all that person talks about is what will happen to them or try to avoid in a negative since (accusations of the innocent person) and what they demand they want and why the other person doesn’t fall in line with it. That is NARCISSISM!
I think the main difference is projection is usually a form of judgement we make about other people to try to change their behavior even though we exhibit the same behavior. Projection usually looks like you telling someone "i think you have a lot of repressed emotions that causes you to act out and be a jerk". Well, we all have repressed emotions. The healthy way to do it is to just say "hey, don't be a jerk to me" rather than making this deeper judgement about the persons behavior.
This reminds me a lot of rejection sensitive dysphoria especially with ADHD and BPD.
YES!!!!!!! Maybe it's that fear of being secretly despised. People with ADHD, personality disorders, and any kind of trauma might become really sensitive to others' possible emotional cues, but then interpret them in in ways that are definitely projection, i.e., "if I hate me, then you must too."
Yes RSD 100%!
Is everything we experience going to be chalked up to some kind of disease or diagnosis? I had no idea RSD existed. I just thought rejection made me feel really bad.
Yes adhd, still waiting ASD. Baffling
@@wl9162until you heal that trauma. A work in progress here.
This is going to be one of those videos I can watch again from time to time because of it's practical value to a person like me who forgets how this projection thing is taking him for another ride😎
That’s awesome Anthony. Save it to watch later or a favorites playlist. Thanks a ton for the super thanks 🙏🏽❤️
I’ve been working on self awareness and learning how we as human beings are more connected than we realize. I try to catch myself when I’m projecting negative stuff and step back, like, “ wait what if this was said / done to you . “ Love your videos Dr. Marks . They’ve taught me so much !
This! I feel more calm when I question my instincts to interpret something as negative automatically vs just jumping to conclusions.
It's almost like you are sitting in my therapy sessions and know what video I need next 😊
❤ or maybe it's your team in spirit that guided you to this video😊
@@noelbob1157 sometimes it feels like so, even though I have no religion, sometimes I know some things aren't a coincidence. This video fell from the sky to me
@@thetrawlermanlife can be beautiful like that friend
Yes. The algorithm
@@thetrawlermanGood Luck
I just started reading "the origins of you' and it's all about origin wounds that come out in adult relationships and behaviour. They note that key hint that it's an old wound coming up is that intense reaction, just as you said. It's an interesting read (I would assume it's the same vein of the narrative story book you recommend )
If someone is projecting, sometimes discussing how wrong they are is a waste of time. Sometimes it isn't worth having a drawn-out conversation about it. Just say what you have to say and leave it alone. Having a conversation grow into a huge argument isn't worth it. In a way, you have to pick your battles.
I like the video.
Exactly. It becomes a circular argument that the projector draws you into, knowing that they’re only gonna respond to their own cognitive dissonance and bias anyway. I have friends, cousins, siblings like this. You try to ignore, but they just try even harder to draw you in. At some point you just stop giving AF.
@@level_ken5231 if they try harder and harder, leave where they are at. Get other people involved so they will leave you alone.
Exactly!
You cant pick any battle 😂😂 why ignore how God made us to sin 👍🏻 f that dictator
@@mick20075 It's interesting how your mind made a connection to someone's experience and solution to projection to God. Do yourself a favor and question where that may stem from. It's not an answer that can be answered quickly, and I don't expect you, nor do I want a response, since it's a question that can only be answered from experience and learning more about your brain's narrative.
This is so accurate to my situation it ain’t even funny
The pre-eminent tool of a narcissistic person; those who can’t face their flaws or mistakes will accuse others of the same or worse.
It's not really a tool. It's more of a subconscious thing everyone does that shows what is in their own heart. For example, if you know you always have good intentions to always do the right things, you will be more inclined to believe that about others also. So sometimes we all have to make a conscious effort to view reality as it is, and not just project what we would do or how we feel, because thats the natural thing to do.
We’ve got to stop the narcissism stigma. I have faced my flaws and dealt with some of my own projections. Yet I still struggle with projection sometimes. It’s HUMAN.
my narcissistic mom claiming I’m brainwashed while she’s watching antivax bs and spiraling into far-right conspiracy theories
People have got to stop labeling people as narcissists. Any person can have this trait. Every single human being is intuitive- some are right, some are wrong. People who have inferiority complex, assume things and start projecting onto others. Either you can hold the person accountable by asking non-attacking questions or simply leave the relation for your own mental peace!
@@ej5000narsists allready make propaganda about themselves,
we dont need random people saying people are narsisists=say if its the ovbios=try helping to see if some1 is a hideing 1,(theyre the true/real threte to every1/sociaty=ww2=the cold war=europe attacking every1 after 1200s=turky attacking,i forget their name=isreal attacking palistine.).
This is video could not have come at a better time. I think my partner and I struggle with this. Thankfully it feels more like projecting anger onto me in order to defend me from someone else. He has a kind heart, we are workong on it, and I know it comes from a place of love.
"You can't pick a good day for a picnic" hit home for me 😂 I always worry what I've suggested will turn out bad and be an inconvenience to others. Despite that I tend to enjoy whatever happens and I appreciate things as they are, even if the weather or whatever is not ideal, so I'm not sure why I fear others will be unhappy and that it will be my fault. 🤔Psychology is so interesting. Thanks for the insight, Dr. M!
You are an amazing person who can articulate these scenarios so well. Thank you so much!
You don't know how much I needed this video! Thank you❤ could you please make more videos about relationships?
It's also harming patient-therapist relations when therapists use their knowledge of projection to wrongly categorize statements of a patient as a defense mechanism.
This can lead to therapists forming problematic biases towards their patient because of misapplication of psychological concepts.
Funny, I had this issue with a previous therapist of mine but I didn't know how to bring it up 😭 I gave them reasons for why I didn't want to do certain thing, but they insisted it was because of stereotypical reasons (ie: meds take away "creativity", which is a stereotype)
I think this is along the lines of what I’ve experienced recently with my therapist Upon being terminated, after enduring the most horrific psychological abuse in the workplace discarded and Left feeling degraded, dehumanized, dejected, disgusted, etc. I reckon mental health providers that don’t know about the social psychology of workplace, bullying and mobbing can easily conclude that their patient is over embellishing or fabricating. I digress, being sucked into a world aware as the narrative grows, your voice, becomes more and more diminished, and you kind of don’t even know what reality is versus not, you depend on your therapist, who has been with you through the whole process to help makes sense of your experience. But then met oddly with comments such as I think you’re upset with me because I’m unable to make any assessment of the situation, as I’m only able to see it through your perspective and not the others. Which is perplexing because I reckon that it doesn’t matter what the other perspective is, the therapist could help me buy a tuning to what my experience was. and once Yuen ceremoniously terminated in my body, feeling like these visceral responses that I get when entering that particular environment or thinking about it, our symptoms of anxiety and trauma being told that they reckon that I’m not looking for work as a form of punishment for the way I was treated. But I don’t understand how that punishes my former employer, and if anything Mina entering the workforce actually punishes the innocent patients no longer have their provider and not the coworkers who aligned with the bully and joined in via mobbing. So the whole projection concept is so confusing to me.
I wonder if my therapist somewhat odd responses came from a subconscious need to align with the perpetrator given that she is an employee of the university which inflicted the psychological violence, almost like a conflict of interest since majority of the actions in bowling and mobbing, are indoctrinated via subconscious mechanisms
This is why I now project onto myself when I have judgements come up about others… and omg it turns out this is something called “self reflection” 😱
True Opposite of the golden rule. If we don’t want it it’s not a good gift for anyone else… trying to remember this more these days
This is such a good explanation, thank you! I've been surprised when someone accused me of something they did themselves and which I had not done. It was confusing.
Omg what a great video and the best explanation and breakdown of what projection is! 👏🏽👏🏽
Is the background footage from Psych2Go? That's another great channel to watch! Doctor Ramani is also my go-to for anything dealing with NPD. You three ladies should do a roundtable discussion. That would be, just, HEAVEN!
I doubt it's from Psych2Go. My editors purchase licenses from stock video sites. But speaking of Psych2Go, Dr. Ramani and I were on a livestream together with them sometime last fall. The replay should still be on their channel.
@@DrTraceyMarks, thank you so much! I'll go look for it!
This doesn't take into account when people are genuinely abusive and insulting and you don't understand why people, plural, are that way routinely toward you. It's not always projection.
personalities are layered so projection is definitely in the mix
@@keithchatman4225I have no idea what that means.
@@Eskedebefore you judged that people are genuinely abusive, have you done everything within your own power to optimize your own mood, including optimal sleep hygienes, consistent vigorous exercise routine, and healthy diets?
@@DomFortressYou don't understand deep-seated emotional problems and/or Depression if you think that's a solution.
@@Eskede you don't practice metabolic psychiatry, vagus nerve cluster stimulation using Valsalva maneuver during powerlifting, optimize dopamine reserve using morning routine, and circadian medicines. You're making up excuses for your lack of self responsibility, and I know how I developed away from my own chronic depression.
Nope, this is too easy of an assumption.
We also spot things if we have recognised those traits within ourselves amd when we have already accepted them and released judgment from them.
Its not always unwanted traits.
When you know yourself (light and dark) then you basically know everybody else because we are all expressions of the ONE conciousness.
The thing is that of the other person has not yet released their judgment on that same trait they will lie amd deny. So IMO its better to go by your own objective discernment then assuming others are going to be truthful to us.
I’ve been binge watching your videos and love them all. But this video speaks volumes to me. My partner does all these things 😢 and it has become exhausting. She is overly critical of ANYTHING…. And I do mean ANYTHING I say. When I try to give her kind words, she hears something else. For example, the other day, I said, “Hey babe, make sure you drink enough water or Gatorade, it’s going to be a very hot day.” Mind you, I said this because she was going to a baseball game. We live in Florida. She says “WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I DON’T DRINK WATER! WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT! YOU THINK YOU ARE BETTER THAN ME!”😳😩🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️. SMH. I’m to the point where I just stay silent.
Really wish someone would address how our nervous systems are not built to handle the global catastrophe, multiple genocides and damage from capitalism. We are ALL overeacting under the strain.
We evolved in chaos. This is just another manmade form of the chaos. We cannot help what happens to us, but we can help how we react and control our own narrative…
If certain medications for depression are only 10 pct effective how did they get to the public?
Financial profit.
Said drugs get to public thru drug companies. So sad
I’m on lexapro for 4.6 years. I’ve only become worse. When I try to stop I get brain shocks.
@@ericB3444taper off, I went with one day on, one day off and when I felt like I was adjusting to that, I’d start taking it once every 3 days and eventually got myself down to taking it once a week for like 2 weeks and eventually got off. It took a couple of months but I think that works better than stopping too quickly
@@ericB3444I've heard about those. What's that like?
Love that phrase, "you spot it, you got it".
Now that was a great video! Thank you for this lesson. I fully resonated with it. 🙏🏾🙂
Needed to hear this today thank you 🙏🏾
Thank you for making another incredible video! I love this topic
When it comes to projection, I have noticed some patterns about this particular defense mechanism.
1. Individuals who fight racism are often accused of being racist themselves.
2. Individuals who fight against bullying are often accused of being bullies themselves.
3. Individuals who fight against narcissism are often accused of being narcissistic.
4. Individuals who take a moral stand against bad people are often accused of being “bad” or problematic.
5. Individuals who take a moral stand against someone who’s crazy are often accused of being crazy themselves.
And the list goes on and on.
you cant change the world only yourself
Wow this hit home, I'm in the middle of something, trying to evaluate if it's all in my head or if my suspicions are true. I am seeing now it's a bit of both and that one thing feeds into the other. Thank you Doc, now I am clearer on what I need to do.
I’ve had to deal with someone frequently in the past that does this and continually caused adversity in the relationship. Due to their lack of self-awareness, I had no other choice but to just limit my time around them.
So if I believe that someone in my family is not being upfront about how they resent me but can't say anything about it, does this mean that I am projecting this fear of being a resented outcast onto her. How do you deal with this honestly? Could this mean that she is actually projecting her fear of being something she could never allow herself to be onto me? I guess I am very insecure and I am trying to read people's minds to forecast the future as usual. As a child, I did this with my father because of his scary mood swings.
You’re my favorite online mental health expert now. I can’t explain how I love your content. I watched a lot of your stuff and livestreams. I would absolutely love to interview you one day. 💛😊
I see this all the time. I work hard at self awareness to prevent myself from doing the same. I learned about projection in HS psychology 101. It’s fascinating.
You can read other peoples emotions accurately though. It's facial expressions, tone and body language and they can be read and the majority of humans do this. I think that needs to be said too
Also, ever thought maybe people are bad? Can't always say it's because of projection if you are seeing someone's bad qualities. People's bad qualities do exist.
Mainly didn't agree with the statement "you spot it, you got it". As it can be misinterpreted
Otherwise, the content of this video is really good for anyone dealing with projection. Thanks Dr.
This video is very helpful Dr👩⚕️.Marks. I think one of my issues growing up(a topic I never discussed with a single doctor👩⚕️ or 🧑⚕️) would have been the gang culture,the color red & blue during the 90's(my neighborhood was a blue neighborhood & to minimize confusion one of older brothers neighborhood was the red,he's aged so it's really not something he focuses on anymore). In my case I felt I had to be a apart of it to be accepted amongst my peers not knowing how dangerous it could be & the consequences that comes with wanting to be a part of & accepted by my peers,it may be sad,but I still feel that I need to feel that acceptance from that group of individuals. As far as it being projected onto me,just going outside & seeing what was in my environment(The color blue was so flamboyant in the 90's in my neighborhood,even though it's no longer that time anymore, the color red was not acceptable in my neighborhood, you had to know someone to wear that color back then). There really is no answer or resolution to me being subjected to the type of projection I was subjected to in my youth,I felt like I adapted to my environment & the color blue actually has a positive meaning & purpose to it, it's also evolved & grown overtime. This was another informative video Dr.👩⚕️,Thank You.
Thanks for this video, it definitely resonates with me. I have ADHD and BPD, this happens a lot with me, but I'm working on it. Luckily my partner has the patience of a saint. 😀
That's awesome that you have that awareness. Insight brings change...
I have to say that that self awareness was hard won. Working on it every day. @@DrTraceyMarks
I really liked this one! Lots of tools to navigate relationships here thanks
Dr. You are a treasure ❤❤❤❤❤
That little story about tina is happening everywhere, isn't it
That cant be true all the time tho 😅
We inherent these things from 100,000s of years of developments... from when we were in a tribe of apes. They're all natural behaviours
Thank you Dr Marks for breaking that down into a very understandable way, I was stunned to see where I have been doing exactly this and how I can see the difference between myself and others I feel quite liberated and grateful to be able to see it.
Projection is a campaign strategy in American politics these days.
Lived exactly this. Person would say, "you think xyz and that's the problem." The other party would become angered when I told them they were way off base. I'd even be accused of lying.
This is so spot on.
What if youre just good at reading people and their issues?
I suggest if your team can cut the live videos into shorts each has only 1 question and answers it will be amazing help for many who couldn't get their question answered while it was answered already in the live video but can't listen to that long video or spot their question in it
That's a great idea! Thanks. Although my answers aren't short...
What role does non-verbal communication play in determining whether or not one is projecting?
Thank you for this.
Wow! Thanks, Dr. Marks. This is right on time!
Thank you for this excellent reminder!
Loving your headwrap..
I am so needy, so I always feel deprived. Sigh, I’m so empty
Hey you're probably not needy. You have needs and they're not being met because you may not know what those needs are or how to meet them. I would recommend self compassion exercises and learning your own needs so you can figure out how you will meet them 😊
@@jenny-wk9cu I have no relationship with my parents and their families, so will have to learn to fill that void on my own
Great content! Thank you. 🎉
It took me a long time to break this habit. The hardest part has been meeting people that project themselves onto me.
She’s clearly referring to me in this video. I can just tell.
Social anxiety has doing this, but i think it's also the derealization/depersonalization that makes it even harder for me to read people. Thank you for doing this video. I have been noticing that i do this and I'm hardly ever right about people.. It gets pretty lonely.
Lol thats my sister.. im so use to it that i can just see the argument if i ever call her out on projecting
This is a great video, Tracey! How do you differentiate between projection and poor mentalization? Have you met/trained with Peter Fonagey (creator of MBT)? I'm looking forward to getting better at mastering my sleep. Thanks so much for your content! Have a great weekend.
Projection is more primative, I think. Mentalising, as it relates to Fonagy's therapy, is more automatic and based on personality organization.
I needed this for myself so much. Thank you so much for this reality check. I need to stop this mess as best as I can!
I have the rejection sensitive dysphoria and ADHD, social isolation due to anxiety. Recipe for disastrous relationships. I try so hard not to be influenced by outside validation. I have alienated almost all of my neighbors. I do have people in the neighborhood I speak with but I am always on guard that I will say the wrong thing and alienate them. Exhausting and I'm Exhausted! I've ended up self isolating just so I won't be further rejected.
You rejected yourself firstly, then you projected your own rejection onto others before they even said anything, this is still a your problem.
A great series on Forgiveness would be a great followup to this one :)
Good info but was the "... even though he thought she had let herself go after the children. " bit of detail necessary? Now I'm wondering if she had subconsciously picked up on that which added to her insecurity. He's obviously judging her appearance which most likely effects some of his behavior towards her.
Perhaps too much detail, but I wanted to show he's not without his own negative thoughts, even though they weren't factoring into the current situation of complimenting his sister in law. But good pick up. She could have believe he thought that because of how he made her feel about her looks.
@DrTraceyMarks I understand but this feeds into the women's "am I enough/am I doing enough?" question that society has stressed is a woman's concern and a man doesn't bother with.
Everybody thinks I’m not smart enough to watch this.
I have the MOST inaccurate mind reading 😂😅😢❤❤❤❤❤
Dr. Tracey is the Best!
Gaaaawwdddd you are an ANGEL! For all the extra links and workbooks THANK YOU❤
Is there a danger of over-self-reflecting? When someone projects onyo me, usually I will step back and ask, "Is this person right?", even though I feel pretty confident they are not. How do I know when to check this behavior in myself?
Wow. You really hit the real issue quickly Dr Marks. I wish I knew this information 20-30 years ago.
Thank you
Why there is just so little info on PPD???!!! It's all about adhd, bpd and such! It is making me mad!
All of this is so confusing. So much inferring, and assigning intentions that aren't there. And it feels like every psychology concept overlaps with every other one.
To make it worse, I swear that most people using these terms are using them wrong, just to win an argument or feel good about themselves.
I just take the stance of "if you speak clearly and honestly, without inferences, then we can skip 99% of these 'concepts' ".
And yet, I feel naive or childish, because "just be honest" gets called childish.
This sucks.
7:43 "I'm sorry you feel this way" is one of the phrases that ignorant people think automatically identifies a narcissistic person.
I’m done with relationships, I always ended up feeling like a therapist on the partners internal issues, but I never Wanted that. I’m know it’s also my fault to allow connections wrong connections. Dr. Marks have a hint on how not to be a therapist, but I’d like to if there’s a video on that topic.
Jumping to conclusions... one of my "unique talents"... UGH😮!!
Hey why have you not talked about "Hatesturbating" there are no videos about this topic at all? My girlfriend has been suffering from this for years ever since she was a child Even know and we want to know how to stop it.
Thank you. This really does give me insight on what has been happening and yes projecting unwanted negative feelings and emotions thats not even true.
I broke up with my boyfriend because of this, he said im always looking at other men and that i cheat on him and thats not true at all, I doesn't matter what i say or do about our relationship because he has "see me' 😵💫
You are helping me be a better person and a better psychologist ♥️
I ruin things because of this, but how do i know it is projection and true?
Excellent. Thank you.
Always trapped why do women even get into a relationship.
Very helpful, thank you!
This is how you learn what the narcissist thinks of themself.
True, but projection is not exclusive to narcissism.... Referring to the husband and wife scenario.
Great title. So fitting, and so true!
I just thought today=3/20/2024=in the morning=im 28,my family said my name alot,but they NEVER DESCRIBED ME EVER!!!!!,
im 28.
Thank you for using example scenarios because it helps me contextualize what you're discussing!
how to reduce security defenses?
This is helpful, thank you!
This is hard for me to ascertain completely, as I was indeed raised in a slightly tumultuous and enmeshed, gaslighting family. My siblings, mother and grandmother are enmeshed. It's disgusting. My mom and I are slowly breaking those barriers. But being 28 now, and after having serious momentous breakthroughs to the point I've almost disconnected from the enmeshment.... I now face every day scenarios in which I "may" be projecting but the enmeshment trauma in my family is overtly visible (only to me and my mother) and since I have quite literally completely changed from the inside out, at least my mindset and priorities6 (oh yesss I still have shadow work integration to work on)..... I am constantly being scrutinized and have received mssgs that u know, I am the one causing these rifts and difficultiesbwhen it makes me feel like and actual crazy person, because these people LITERALLY cannot even SEE their enmeshment playing out in every day life. So they treat their life in accordance with their "trauma" that they don't even realize can be something integral to your growth as a human being. Anyway I digress I love ya Dr. Marks
I have been going through this 😢😢😢😢
Everyone projects and instead of viewing as an innate bad or defensive quality, I’d instead reframe it and say that projection is extremely important in predicting behavior. Also, I think projection can also point to fears. Whenever I’ve been in fear the most (I have OCD), I saw it everyone and believed it was manifesting. So, it is not always who you are but what you are afraid of becoming or simple fear in general.
What if someone is projecting that you're projecting? If you double-checked by asking the suspected person for specificities, like you mentioned in the video -- would they be able to respond? The guy I know can't even give me a vague example, so I'm left wondering if I really have zero self-awareness or if I'm being taken for a ride
Uhhh LIKE THE OVERHEAD IN 4TH GRADE!!! 😂 Needed this!
I generally enjoy and appreciate your content. It seems informative and helpful. Thank you.
Thank you so much ❤
After reading the comments I’m convinced allot of you refuse to believe you are narcissistic.
I have learned through experience that’s trauma can cause a person to be narcissistic. Especially if they were not getting what they emotionally needed at the time of their relationship. Now all that person talks about is what will happen to them or try to avoid in a negative since (accusations of the innocent person) and what they demand they want and why the other person doesn’t fall in line with it. That is NARCISSISM!
What if there's a lot of hostility in the way someone is talking/shouting at you.
I think the main difference is projection is usually a form of judgement we make about other people to try to change their behavior even though we exhibit the same behavior. Projection usually looks like you telling someone "i think you have a lot of repressed emotions that causes you to act out and be a jerk". Well, we all have repressed emotions.
The healthy way to do it is to just say "hey, don't be a jerk to me" rather than making this deeper judgement about the persons behavior.
Thank you you are fantastic
Self-reflecting, I can see how gaslighting can bring about projection.