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Why Do We Want What We Want?

Mentally Yours

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What's the Mental Health Impact of Not Going Your Way?

I think it's quite paradoxical in a way. It's really consoling and comforting when you realize that you're never cang to have everything you want. We get really stuck with some sense of enoughness and some expectation of fulfilment, which i think is a huge burden. A lot of people are really freaked out by desire. They think that if they faced themselves, why go there? Because it might be disappointing. And that's one of the reasons we we often don't ask ourselves what we really want because it's vulnerable and its exposing. But i think being able to survive not going your way...it's actually quite obolstering and galvanizing when

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