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Four Favorite Ways to Suffer
Knowing these four ways we suffer helps us to avoid them. If you’re looking for attention, try wearing a T-shirt with this question embossed across the chest in bold type—Who Will I be Without my...
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Mark Twain’s Mysterious Misery-Machine
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The Helplessness Trap in Cravings & Addictions
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The Astonishing Basis of Our Addictions
We can overcome addictions by understanding our emotional issues. It’s curious that we humans get addicted to both substances and activities. On the substance side, people get hooked on drugs, alcohol,...
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A Plague of Neurosis Upon Our House
We make our politics a script for the national staging of personal dysfunction. People are in psychological crisis, and masses of us, steeped in the anxiety of helplessness and futility, are feeling...
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Escaping the Clutches of Helplessness
Feelings of helplessness can be entangled in our sense of identity. We can all feel fragile at times, fading feebly in and out like a tiny sparkle in the vast firmament. It’s easy then to feel...
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O Shame, Where is Thy Secret Source?
Self-knowledge helps us to penetrate more deeply into the roots of shame. Shame is a powerful and self-damaging emotion, and many books in recent years have tackled the subject in search of its roots....
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Collapsing into Helplessness
A sense of helplessness, when emotionally embellished, makes things a lot more difficult for us. James E. Holmes’s spiral notebook helps us understand his descent into madness. Holmes, a neuroscience...
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Four Favorite Ways to Suffer
If you’re looking for attention, try wearing a T-shirt with this question embossed across the chest in bold type—Who Will I be Without my Suffering? These words have a thunderous effect on an...
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Mark Twain’s Mysterious Misery-Machine
We all like to think we’re motivated by self-interest, self-protection, and self-love. Consciously, we are. Unconsciously, though, we operate a misery-machine inside us that churns up self-defeat,...
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The Helplessness Trap in Cravings & Addictions
This post is a revised and expanded version of an earlier post, “The Negative Emotions behind Addictions,” which was published here last October. In this version, I go into the heart of the emotional...
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The Astonishing Basis of Our Addictions
It’s curious that we humans get addicted to both substances and activities. On the substance side, people get hooked on drugs, alcohol, nicotine, sugar, and fat. We can also become addicted without...
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A Plague of Neurosis Upon Our House
We make our politics a script for the national staging of personal dysfunction. People are in psychological crisis, and masses of us, steeped in the anxiety of helplessness and futility, are feeling...
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Escaping the Clutches of Helplessness
Feelings of helplessness can be entangled in our sense of identity. We can all feel fragile at times, fading feebly in and out like a tiny sparkle in the vast firmament. It’s easy then to feel...
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O Shame, Where is Thy Secret Source?
Self-knowledge helps us to penetrate more deeply into the roots of shame. Shame is a powerful and self-damaging emotion, and many books in recent years have tackled the subject in search of its roots....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Collapsing into Helplessness
A sense of helplessness, when emotionally embellished, makes things a lot more difficult for us. James E. Holmes’s spiral notebook helps us understand his descent into madness. Holmes, a neuroscience...
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