by MIMMIM May 6, 2022
Get the Emotional Damage mug.When someone seems intent on telling you to stop feeling a specific emotion. Usually negativity because you're "bringing everyone's mood down" or something similar. Even when you hide your emotions in public and say one offhand comment about how you really feel,there will most likely be someone there to enact Emotional Policing. You're expected to change yourself despite how you truly feel,despite how many facts you have to back up your emotions (which you shouldn't need because that notion seeks to invalidate emotional response). Emotional Policing is everywhere.
Example one:
Todd: "Yeah,Project 2025 is going to hurt a lot of marginalized people and minorities. I'm worried my friends will die."
Bill: "Oh my god,stop being such a fucking doomer Todd! Just relax,everything will be okay."
Todd: "Oh yeah,I should totally 'just relax' when the people I know are going to be hurt or killed. Fuck you and your Emotional Policing,Bill."
Example two:
Jerry: *Expresses even one negative emotion.*
Tom: "SHUT UP YOU DOOMER PESSIMIST NEGATIVE NANCY DOOMER DOOMER DOOMER! BE HAPPY GODDAMNIT DON'T DRAG DOWN THE MOOD OF EVERYONE AROUND YOU STOP IT"
Jerry: "Fuckin' Emotional Policing.."
Todd: "Yeah,Project 2025 is going to hurt a lot of marginalized people and minorities. I'm worried my friends will die."
Bill: "Oh my god,stop being such a fucking doomer Todd! Just relax,everything will be okay."
Todd: "Oh yeah,I should totally 'just relax' when the people I know are going to be hurt or killed. Fuck you and your Emotional Policing,Bill."
Example two:
Jerry: *Expresses even one negative emotion.*
Tom: "SHUT UP YOU DOOMER PESSIMIST NEGATIVE NANCY DOOMER DOOMER DOOMER! BE HAPPY GODDAMNIT DON'T DRAG DOWN THE MOOD OF EVERYONE AROUND YOU STOP IT"
Jerry: "Fuckin' Emotional Policing.."
by Lazthedictionist November 23, 2024
Get the Emotional Policing mug.When something or someone is encrypted in your soul. They are a part of you, for better or worse, ON your Emotional Hard Drive.
Damon: Bro, could you stop deleting our group chats, it is really annoying and makes me feel unimportant.
Brett: Group chat messages are temporary, you are on my Emotional Hard Drive.
Damon: Thanks man, still annoying tho.
Brett: Group chat messages are temporary, you are on my Emotional Hard Drive.
Damon: Thanks man, still annoying tho.
by Mike109999 September 9, 2025
Get the Emotional Hard Drive mug.Enjoying the late night instead of sleeping. Staying up much later than is smart or practical in order to claw back a sense of self and autonomy. Anti capitalist insomnia.
My emotional support insomnia kept me up until 4am reading fanfic. I’m so tired but it was totally worth it.
by One Twisted Miracle April 7, 2024
Get the Emotional support insomnia mug.When two people have a crush on each other but don't admit it and continue to speak to each other as close friends. Could also be a connotation for "just friends".
by Mcpalandnocoeiwnmslx April 23, 2017
Get the Emotional bant mug.When you get caught up in the throes of a new relationship & accidentally end up saying something you wish you hadn’t
Brad: I was having a great weekend with my girlfriend, & before I knew it, I was telling her I loved her.
Scott: Dude, that’s know as emotional turrets.
Scott: Dude, that’s know as emotional turrets.
by Guster63 July 16, 2020
Get the Emotional turrets mug.Someone who shows no emotional response to anything, no matter how poignant or stirring. They’re either so repressed that nothing gets through their emotional firewall, or so disconnected from their feelings that even a child’s laugh, a heartfelt poem, a soulful song, or a breathtaking view leaves them completely unmoved. Picture a human equivalent of a flatline on an emotional EKG—zero reaction, just a blank stare.
"I played her my favorite song, the one that makes everyone cry, and she just shrugged—total Emotional Flatliner."
by Raquel de la Roche August 5, 2025
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