Catastrophizing is fundamentally a coping mechanism. What pscyhological pain is little umi trying to cope with by exagerating it to be a catastrophe?
Much of it seems to be directed at his former adopted homeland — is lil umi perhaps homesick for the idealic South Asian homeland from which his parents separated him, doomed instead to perpetually condemn his adopted homeland?
Yet he casts his scorn across the ocean — not at the nearly identical cultures of Western Europe where he “resides” but towards a distant land he now knows only by way of media, social and otherwise. A brief analysis would suggest he failed to find his way in the USA and now spends his days whining about America “You’re not all that anyway.”
Is it his failure to integrate or find a place in the USA that drives his chronic bitterness? Or is it the ready availability of a US market for his simpering rants? His preference for lower case spelling of his name betrays a fragile, insecure id. His career claim to be a “vampire” after aspiring to study neuroscience betrays a child adorning himself in cap and gown to play grownup.
Perhaps the Sanford student counselor who rebuffed his suicidal threats with an admonishment to go home and man up was on to something. Lil’ umi blames others for his discontent.
For the record — contrary to Lil umi’s claim, “blame yourself” is not a boilerplate reply to depression or suicidality among any recognized, peer reviewed treatment method. It’s more likely a particular clininical approach to a person who systematically catastrophizes the conduct of others to displace responsibility for one’s own responses.
