emotional support
Emotional support is the free theater of lubricating another’s heart under the guise of genuine care, all to patch one’s own sense of security. What masquerades as heartfelt concern becomes a bizarre stage prop that fosters mutual dependency, reflecting each other’s anxieties in a funhouse mirror. Ideally designed to be a lifeboat for a shipwrecked psyche, it often turns into the very wreckage it seeks to rescue.