You’re NOT Sick—You’re Suppressed: The Real Reason You’re Exhausted & In Pain | Gabor Maté
Rangan Chatterjee
May 18, 2025
Mindsip insights from this episode:
Adopt authoritative parenting to validate emotions and set boundaries
The ideal parenting style is 'authoritative,' which validates a child's emotions while still setting firm boundaries on their behavior.
Recognize emotional suppression as a childhood survival mechanism
The adult regret of not expressing feelings stems from a childhood necessity to suppress emotions for parental acceptance, not from a personal lack of courage.
Recognize emotions as essential survival circuits
Citing neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp, emotions like anger, fear, and grief are not luxuries but evolutionarily determined brain circuits essential for survival.
Live for yourself, not to impress others
The desire to be impressive to others means you are living in their minds rather than in yourself, robbing you of your own life.
Recognize care needs without ego attachment
The belief that 'people need me' is often an egotistical trap; they need good care, which doesn't have to come from you specifically.
Address maternity leave crisis to improve future generations' health
A shocking 25% of women in the US return to work within two weeks of giving birth, a societal failure that creates long-term health problems for the next generation.
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