/ trish-al-es / An eponymous portmanteau used to describe a woman who is great or awful; Awful in this context means to fill one with awe or inspiration.
a four piece punk-pop garage band from new brunswick, the plaid triclycles can actually rock, a rare quality to find in new brunswick bands. there are 2 girls, kortni on lead vocals and rhythm guitar and mandy on bass and back up vocals. then there is david on lead guitar and chase on drums. kortni and chase are siblings and live beside mandy. all of them are ridiculously attractive.
The belief that all human problems, emotions, and experiences can be reduced to needing therapy, needing medication, or fitting into a psychiatric diagnosis. Cognitive trivialism flattens the complexity of human existence into clinical categories: grief is depression, political anger is delusion, existential confusion is anxiety, different thinking is schizophrenia. It's the intellectual equivalent of a hammer seeing everything as nails—every human difficulty becomes a disorder requiring professional intervention. This worldview is comforting to those who hold it (complexity is reduced to simple labels) and devastating to those subjected to it (their genuine experiences are pathologized, their valid concerns dismissed as symptoms).
Example: "When she expressed anger about social injustice, he responded with cognitive trivialism: 'You're clearly projecting your childhood trauma. Have you considered therapy?' Her political analysis was reduced to personal pathology; her valid anger became a symptom. Cognitive trivialism had done its work: dismissing substance by pathologizing emotion."