emotional ostrich

A person who avoids dealing with problems or emotions, figuratively burying their head in the sand.

My mom hates acknowledging a problem, let alone actually dicussing it. She is such an emotional ostrich...

Man, she has really been ostriching it up lately...

by kforbs July 1, 2014

emotional 69

Emotional 69 is just another fancier way of saying "You scratch my back, I scratch yours". Generally should be used in the workplace, or therapist sessions.

What I think you should do is commit to an emotional 69, both of you would benefit from this.

by 69AMoose November 26, 2019

Emotional Tofu

(noun): Similar to the food product Tofu which generates no original flavor but absorbs flavor from surrounding products, Emotional Tofu is a person with no actual experience in a topic but knows, or knows of, someone who has experience in a cause, so they absorb their emotion as their own.

Seen mostly in white, middle/upper class, priveledged, Social Justice Warriors when they're trying to justify their political views. Typically identified by using sentences that start with "I have a friend who.."

Veteran: Yeah I think the inroads made in Iraq post-exit in 2011 have had mostly long term benefits for the region despite setbacks with ISIL's rise

Emotional Tofu: No it isn't! No! You don't understand. I have friend. He was in Iraq. He caught PTSD and that's why universal health insurance and stronger gun control because fuck you Trump!

by Palmo53 January 29, 2017

synchronized emoting

When a large group of people have the same reactions (to a sporting event, horror movie, cute cat video) at the exact same time without advanced planning.

"I have no idea what they were watching on her laptop, but their synchronized emoting told me that it was gross from all the gasps and 'ew's I heard."

by Cosmokitty November 7, 2011

emotional dummy

Someone who has unstable emotions, mostly having to do with love.

Ambrin is an emotional dummy, because she cannot choose who she likes and she changes her feelings

by Who's this? August 20, 2017

emotional lapdance

Verb: The act of stimulating someone's emotional needs. When you feel like you have to exhaust yourself in a performative act to satify the emotional needs of another.

"I just can't be with him anymore! He's too dependant on me emotionally. I feel like I have to give him an emotional lapdance everyday. The constant reassurance, the unending questions. Why do I feel like he wants me to be like his mother and his therapist?"

by CharlesMonty January 22, 2021

emotional tornado

A combination of anxiety and emotional distress and their spiral toward a child's inability to self-regulate, as witnessed in children, often during a regular school day. The emotional tornado spins from anxiety, emotional distress and poor self-regulation, followed by greater anxiety and further emotional turmoil. An emotional tornado can wreak havoc on a child's stress response system, impair maturing brain circuits and increase the probability for long-term learning, behavior and overall health.

Ashley's daily dose of bullying on the playground led to her heightened anxiety, emotional distress from the name calling and an inability to maintain her self-regulation in the recess line; she was experiencing an emotional tornado.

by docec May 11, 2016