mental trauma that on the surface looks like it numbs the reaction to strong imaginery/events, but in reality is a constant struggle that the mind has adapted and kept on the inside. if strong enough, it might lead to a breakdown. special cases might lead to suicide
person 1: yo have you heard about person 3? he's been missing for 3 days straight, did they catch a cold
person 2: ever since his parents divorced, he's been struggling with toxic parenting projecting their hate for one another into person 3. yesterday I found his pale corpse in an alley. now I know what he meant a year ago when he said he was dying inside
When you can only describe the way you feel as dying inside but you're just insanely happy and/or giddy. You would like to sink into the ground because the happiness is too much.
Y/n: OMGGG MY CRUSH LOOKED AT ME🤪🥵
Bff/n: that's so great🙄 how do you feel???
Y/n: oh fine, I'm just dying inside in a good way
1. A hopeless self-centered attention-whore who has done her best to cut all ties to other people and constatnly tries to make herslef and others feel bad mentally and physically
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)