Donald Robertson on Derren Brown and the Stoic View of Anxiety
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks
00:00
The Stoics Are Overcome With Their Emotional Reactions
People often suffer mental health problems in part because they take too much responsibility for aspects of emotion that aren't under their control. The stoics also have a term, propethea, which is cenatriky to translate, but it basicaly means involuntary emotional reactions. So the heart racing, the stoics would say that's not voluntary. You just have to acept that, in fact, you're crazy. If you try to struggle against it, you'll probably make it worse.
Transcript
Play full episode
