I remember being in a co-counselling training course some years ago, and one of the participants, a very upper class Englishman, kept saying things like "One is very sensitive about this" and "One finds it hard to ...". After a while the trainer, Anne Dickson (have you heard of her, Hannah? I'm sure you have. She wrote A Woman in Her Own Right) said to him: "Say I find it hard..., not "one finds it hard, because you're distancing yourself from the feeling."
I remember being in a co-counselling training course some years ago, and one of the participants, a very upper class Englishman, kept saying things like "One is very sensitive about this" and "One finds it hard to ...". After a while the trainer, Anne Dickson (have you heard of her, Hannah? I'm sure you have. She wrote A Woman in Her Own Right) said to him: "Say I find it hard..., not "one finds it hard, because you're distancing yourself from the feeling."
Anyway, I really enjoyed reading your article, and it inspired me to write one myself: https://terryfreedman.substack.com/p/language-and-self?r=18suih&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web