Smell the flowers, blow out the candles, light your house on fire - Functional Freeze

Ladies & Tangents

Society & Culture

5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

If there's one thing millenials love doing, it's adding the word *functional* in front of scary words to make them less harsh. This week we're prepping for the inevitable marathon panic attack also known as the holiday season by learning about a cute little trauma response that we may or may not have adopted after years and years of being forced to work while experiencing global agony. I don't think this is what Darwin meant when he studied survival. The bar for the "fittest" is looking pretty low and pretty frozen these days. RESOURCES: https://youtu.be/-qPCzzn-uQA https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/articles/what-is-functional-freeze-and-how-can-you-soothe-it https://khironclinics.com/blog/functional-freeze-emotions-after-trauma/

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey guys. I'm Jerry. I'm Sierra. We're ladies. And we tangent.
0:19.0	Okay, you can definitely see my thingies.
0:21.8	Da-da-da-da-da-da.
0:23.1	You're right.
0:27.0	Why, my thingies look small.
0:29.2	Why, I got a small thing.
0:30.9	Guys, if our thingies are not, well, I guess you won't see our thingies.
0:35.9	Well, you want to see my thingy?
0:37.3	You want to see my thing, thing, thing?
0:39.5	No, we're talking about our, our, um, audio, uh, what's that called?
0:46.3	Spikies.
0:47.3	What's that called?
0:48.4	Like our sound waves, I guess.
0:50.2	On the, on the computer, they don't appear to be matching. Uh- be matching and i don't know what that means
0:57.2	probably means that i'm going to have to do more work editing editing and that's going to suck
1:03.7	ass you're going to try to see it again if it's bad it's bad okay what are we going to do all right i'm not doing none of us no one's
1:14.1	doing well nope i'm unwell assly i'm assly unwell i'm assly unwell i'm stomachly unwell
1:24.2	i'm really tired i've not been getting good sleep yeah so I've been waking up at like 6. 6.30 in the
1:31.1	morning. What's wrong with that? That baby. Well, here's the thing that pisses me out.
1:35.5	Is that she didn't do it all week. And then I take no to school at 6.30 every day, all week.
1:41.5	And then Friday and Saturday, she fucking wakes up at 6.30.
1:44.2	She's like, I think this is what we're doing. Hey, can I have one day? But here's the thing.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ladies & Tangents, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ladies & Tangents and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.