Everyone has experienced a shitty day at some point in their lives. Some of these days are so bad that positive terms like yes are not okay to describe it. That is where nosterday comes in. It is a term used whenever you do not wish to use the yes in yesterday and need a suitable alternative.
Frank: Hey, how were you yesterday?
John: Awful. I got fired from my job, the bank foreclosed my house, and my drug dealer got arrested. It was an utter nosterday.
John: Awful. I got fired from my job, the bank foreclosed my house, and my drug dealer got arrested. It was an utter nosterday.
by ManMan36 July 4, 2016
Get the nosterday mug.The term for the phenomenon where therapy—particularly mental and psychological interventions—has more negative than positive effects on an individual. The Notherapy Effect can result from various factors: mismatched therapist and client, inappropriate modalities, forced or coerced therapy, therapy that pathologizes normal responses to abnormal situations, or simply the wrong approach for the individual. Instead of healing, the experience causes harm: retraumatization, increased distress, eroded trust, deepened shame. The Notherapy Effect is rarely discussed in a culture that treats therapy as universally beneficial, but it's real, and its victims are left not only unhelped but harmed—and often blamed for their own failure to improve.
Example: "She'd been coerced into therapy after speaking out about workplace abuse. The therapist focused not on the abuse but on her 'reaction' to it, suggesting her anger was the problem, not the injustice. Months of this left her doubting herself, blaming herself, more broken than before. The Notherapy Effect had done its work: therapy had harmed more than helped, and she was left to pick up the pieces alone."
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The art/act of talking a person out of doing something drastic, usually life threatening situations.
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