
Does Anyone Else Feel Like Everything Has Changed? (Unhappy, Lost, Addicted, Stressed) | Gabor Maté
Rangan Chatterjee
14 ago 2024
Mindsip insights from this episode:
Recognize addiction as a spectrum of behaviors with long-term consequences
Addiction is any behavior that provides temporary pleasure or relief but causes long-term negative consequences and is difficult to give up, including work, shopping, or exercise.
Heal childhood pain to overcome addiction
The source of addiction is not a choice but an attempt to self-soothe childhood hurt, either from bad things happening or from good things not happening.
Manage tension to combat hypertension
The medical condition of hypertension can be understood as a physiological response to too much tension in people's lives, driven by social and emotional pressures.
Transform childhood survival adaptations to prevent adult pathology
Psychological and physiological adaptations made in childhood for immediate survival can become the source of pathology and illness in the long term.
Recognize unconscious validation needs to balance work efforts
Working 'too hard' is often driven by an unconscious need to validate your existence, which stems from not feeling valued in early childhood.
Release emotional tension through forgiveness
Forgiveness is not for the other person, it's for yourself to let go of the emotional tension and tightness you are holding.
Release chronic regret to embrace the present
Chronic regret is a form of egotism and a lack of self-forgiveness that values the past more than the present.
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