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307. Childhood Trauma, Marriage, and Making Friends | Dr. John Delony

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Can You Do This by Yourself?

I keep coming back to a central, one central point, and that's that we are desperately and pathologically and spiritually and frighteningly lonely. So let me ask you this, in your psychoanalytic experience, can somebody, can the majority of people do this by themselves? I don't think that people can generally do this alone. It's actually very difficult. And I think people can't do it alone in part because people aren't very good at thinking and they're not very good at negotiation. Well, and when we're anxious, our brains shut off rational thinking, right? Just wants us getting out of there.

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