
217 - Interview With Donald J. Robertson
Stoic Coffee Break
How to Deal With Anxiety and Depression in a Macro Perspective
People with anxiety or depressev tend to vacillate between two opposing ways of responding to unpleasant experiences. They either ruminate about them, or they suppress them. These are both toxic, maladaptive ways of calking. And so avod messing is some kind of third way. Like some alternative that's neither entanglement nor avoidance. That comes by accepting the unpleasant experience and not avoiding it,. But broadening your scope of attention so that it doesn't seem as intense and overwhelming.
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