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Emotional Strangulation

(noun)

The intense feeling of being overwhelmed, suffocated, or mentally “choked out” by someone else’s emotions, actions, or demands — to the point where you can’t think straight or breathe emotionally. It’s when another person’s pressure, manipulation, or emotional dumping wraps around your mind like a vice and leaves you frozen, drained, or powerless.

Used when:

Someone pushes their feelings, guilt, expectations, or drama onto you so hard that you feel mentally constricted — like your emotional airway just got cut off.
Examples:

“Bro, every time she starts guilt-tripping me, I get serious emotional strangulation.”

“It’s not the argument — it’s how he twists everything until I can’t even breathe emotionally, its like he is emotionally strangling me!”

“Parents who dump their stress onto their kids don’t realise the emotional strangulation they cause.”
by jrx007 December 4, 2025
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Emotional Tsunami

The shit that happens when Trump is in offices and all CEOs think they're him as well.
Today they announces that we all need to be in the office 4 days a week, the CEO gave me an emotional tsunami that means I can no longer work.
by Philistine Filly December 11, 2025
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actively emotional

to express emotion (i.e. anger) in an outward manner (i.e. yelling, laughing, etc.)

opposite of passive aggression
i was actively emotional when my boyfriend broke up with me and bitched him out so hard he cried.
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bare emosh

the reply to a friend saying something emotional.

OR

sarcastically used when someone isn't saying anything particularly emotional at all just to make fun and for lols.

bare = really, extremely

emosh = emotional
-'there's no more mars bars'
-'bare emosh'

-'i need the toilet'
-'bare emosh'

-'i'm tired'
-'bare emosh'
-'your mum'
-'bare emosh'
by raycrazy111 May 25, 2012
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