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How to silence your inner mean girl
17-03-2021
2021
Teens articles
We all have one. Now it's time to retain those nasty thoughts. Dolly; issue 0213; p054 - 055; Text Available
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caption54 DOLLY DollY.coM.au DOLLYyOU Words Jessica Bailey PhotograPhy getty images We all have one. Now it’s time to retrain those nasty thoughts.your inner mean girl silence hoW To do0213p054_ mea_ 54.pdf Page 54 17/12/2012, 4:41:05 PM
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captioncall 13 61 16 To subscribe DOLLY 55 Words Jessica Bailey Photography getty images W hen Alex, 17, continually posted Facebook status updates about how amazing her boyfriend was, her best friend Natasha, also 17, was getting frustrated. “Every time I checked Facebook, Alex would be in the newsfeed with yet another update about how much she loves Matt,” says Natasha. “Sometimes it was even twice a day. It was like, ‘We get it, enough already’. Once, after a really long day at school, I went on Facebook on my phone and saw another status from Alex and lost it. I wrote ‘No one cares. Stop putting it online!’” Despite the comment getting seven likes in 10 minutes, Natasha knew she’d crossed the line and felt bad. She deleted her post and apologised to Alex. You don’t have to carry a burn book to be a meanie. Whether it’s secretly wanting to burst your pal’s (kinda annoying) bubble or acting out your thoughts via nasty FB posts, not nice = not cool. So we called in the experts to help you silence that inner mean girl and start liking the person within! Why so mean? According to psychologist Elizabeth Seeley-Wait, having mean thoughts is normal. “We all have an inner mean girl. This is part of being human,” says Elizabeth. “These feelings usually stem from frustration, jealousy, fear or sadness, and sometimes it feels more powerful to ‘hate’ someone than to admit we’re feeling something else around that person, like intimated or envious.” Elizabeth says the other obvious trigger to having a mean outburst like Natasha’s is spending too much time thinking about why your friend irritates you. “Too much of a focus on someone else in this negative way can really stir us up and make us more agitated and upset,” she says. Jessica, 16, can relate. “I went away over the holidays with my friend and little things about her started to annoy me,” she says. “She t
