Dr. Jameca CooperForensic Psychology Consultant, Emergence Psychological Services · Board Certified Counseling Psychologist and Forensic Psychology Consultant

Toxic trait of the week. Impulsivity. #blackpsychologist #healing #toxic #toxicrelationships

19 Apr 2022 · 1 min

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In this introductory video, Dr. Jameca Cooper, a psychologist with two decades of experience, launches a new series that spotlights a different toxic trait each week. She explains the format—sometimes a weekly focus, sometimes a daily one—and announces that the first trait to be examined is impulsivity. Dr. Cooper recounts a recent incident on a professional listserv where she sent a courteous email to a large audience, only to receive an abrupt, unprofessional reply of “Hell no” from an unknown participant. She reflects on how, in the past, her own impulsive reaction might have escalated the situation, but thanks to her professional growth and therapeutic training, she chose restraint. The segment sets the stage for future discussions on how impulsivity manifests in relationships and how awareness, therapy, and personal development can mitigate its toxic effects.

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I am Dr. Jameca Cooper and I've been a psychologist for 20 years. I have lots of experience with relationships and individuals working with people in therapy about toxicity. My new series is talking about toxic traits. Each week we're going to have a toxic trait of the week. Some days we'll have a toxic trait of the day. This week the toxic trait of the week will be impulsivity. I was on an email chain and a listserv last night where I sent out a pretty professional email to hundreds of people and the immediate response I got from one person was, "Hell no." Now, it was not even a person that I knew, so I was like, "Hmm, this is strange. Where is this coming from?" Um, very inappropriate and unprofessional behavior. Um, I'm lucky lots of other people jumped on before I was able to respond, but I think the old me, prior to being a professional and a little bit more grown up and saved, uh, that person would have hopped on the email and said some things that I would not have been able to undo.