intellectualize

“I think I was trying to intellectualize my feelings to get away from being vulnerable,” she says.

Sit in the building that originated “The Sopranos” and “The Wire” and you feel a certain pressure to intellectualize your ideas, to overstress your originality.

In the short run, that’s a positive coping skill, but in the long run, when you continue to intellectualize and you don’t feel, that can show in different ways like binge drinking, excessive shopping, excessive doomscrolling, physical breakdowns or even dipping into low-function depression.

You can sit back afterward and intellectualize everything, but when you’re watching it, even when it’s weird, it makes logical sense.

I’m a psychologist and so the way I manage any negative feelings is to intellectualize: I think about the causes and context of a situation.