Psychology Talk Series # 15: Why Are Some People So Damn Talkative?
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You're sitting in a meeting and all of a sudden this talkative friend of yours starts to tell you about how their weekend was ruined by the weather. You try to be polite by giving minimal reactions while trying to stay focused on the meeting which somehow still leads her on to saying more stuff about that damn weekend you don't even care about. The next thing you know, you've lost all your energy dealing with that multitasking you didn't really sign up for and this friend is still talking energetically as if her now ranting about her broken nail amuses you as much....
Yes, talkative people could be a pain in the ass like that. I'd know, because I'm kind of one of them....
An Oral Fixation
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According to Freud, the child's habit when it comes to being breastfed has something to do with the child's latter mannerisms or attitude that both may or may not directly involve the mouth. For example, being a chainsmoker and an over-eater implies a person's fixation on the nipples when they were still in the said oral stage just how being talkative is associated with that issue.
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But Being Talkative..
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I remember, once I had a conversation with this cool 21-year-old mom who was also waiting for this job interview I just randomly applied for. She was very talkative and she definitely made me feel like my being talkative was just a merely unusual form of silence. She was constantly ranting about the scorching hot weather at first but as we went on to talking, or as I went on to listening to her out of politeness, we ended up talking about monogamy's complicated nature. Then from there, she had begun to express how she enjoyed being a mother, her love for her son, and the postpartum depression that comes with both of those things and plenty more wonderful things about her life.
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