Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for January 28, 2024

Yeah Charlie Brown, don’t talk that way about Charlie Brown.

If I only had a Dollar – or a slap in the face – for ev’ry time I talked this way about me, I would be rich and unconscious…

Yeah it’s no fun if you agree with how e talk about you

When I was about 10 y/o and bad-mouthing myself, my favorite aunt told me very forcefully, “Don’t talk that way about someone I love!” 70 years later, that memory still warms my heart and boosts my ego.

“I’ll slap you silly, Charlie Brown”!

She’s like my 20 yr old students when I say I’m old. I am, but it’s nice to be told I’m not.

You’ll talk that way in a few years, Pat

Actually, that might not be a bad therapeutic technique…reframe from a third person perspective.

Self-debasement happens all the time and it is a real and often very hard to cope with at any age.

Sometimes tough love works.

It’s also in the movie “1776”, in a letter from Abigail Adams to her husband John, who was serving in the Continental Congress.

Give how much of the movie was take directly from the words of the people in it, often verbatim, it’s likely she did berate John exactly like that.

I’ve never called myself a failure since my father strongly rebuked me for doing so.

Quite right—you’re a good egg Charlie Brown, and we love you!

One of the horrible aspects of my mental health issues is called “personality disorder” and it means that I am always seeking approval of others and want to please them and think that I am worthless. I tend to ask people way too many times if they are mad at me, even when they aren’t, to the point the they tell me no but if I keep asking then they will be. I am always being told by others to stop puttiing myself down and not to call my self worthless but it is very hard for me to do that. I truly hate this part of my mental health problems.