Analysis paralysis

Intellectualization and the faux window of tolerance

Intellectualization looks so shiny on paper. You walk into therapy with a neatly labeled file folder for your life, you have theories, you can quote three podcasts and two studies, and if someone asks what you feel, you can deliver a powerpoint on why you feel it.

From the outside, it often reads as self-awareness, but from the inside, somewhere deep do…