Wellness & therapy-speak

Therapy-speak has escaped the therapist's office. Words once heard mainly in clinical psychology — boundaries, attachment style, trauma response, gaslighting — are now everyday TikTok captions and group-chat punchlines.

This is the catalogue of wellness, therapy, and self-improvement slang on Slangora. Some is genuinely useful psychological vocabulary; some has been so flattened by repetition it now means nearly nothing; most lives somewhere in between.