js: Following that line of thought, I was similarly impacted by the essay “On Gaslighting.” That piece helped me realize that if I do not understand the coping mechanisms I’m using, and if I have not faced the rationalizations I have built around those coping strategies, I’m going to have a pretty distorted view of myself and my motivations. And that means I’m going to be offering the people around me not just a limited view of myself, but a distorted view of reality.
