Dr. Adi Jaffe
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Yeah, I'm not good enough. I'm always going to be alone. The world is a dark place. I got to be out for myself. Like I have a list of them actually in a whole section of the book that I've seen come up Pretty frequently, I'm not good enough. Nobody's going to love me. I'm going to be alone. And the world is dark. I need to care for myself and not other people are very, very common ones.
Yeah, I'm not good enough. I'm always going to be alone. The world is a dark place. I got to be out for myself. Like I have a list of them actually in a whole section of the book that I've seen come up Pretty frequently, I'm not good enough. Nobody's going to love me. I'm going to be alone. And the world is dark. I need to care for myself and not other people are very, very common ones.
And so if any of those three categories of things that I just mentioned are happening to you regularly in your life, what you can end up finding is You can find yourself in anxiety, fear, depression, loneliness, isolation at different points.
And so if any of those three categories of things that I just mentioned are happening to you regularly in your life, what you can end up finding is You can find yourself in anxiety, fear, depression, loneliness, isolation at different points.
And so if any of those three categories of things that I just mentioned are happening to you regularly in your life, what you can end up finding is You can find yourself in anxiety, fear, depression, loneliness, isolation at different points.
And what you learn to do is you learn to deal with those negative feelings because we don't live in a society where saying that to people around you is actually really easy and simple. So you learn to cover them up, but they're not easy to cover up. So you cover them up with anxiety.
And what you learn to do is you learn to deal with those negative feelings because we don't live in a society where saying that to people around you is actually really easy and simple. So you learn to cover them up, but they're not easy to cover up. So you cover them up with anxiety.
And what you learn to do is you learn to deal with those negative feelings because we don't live in a society where saying that to people around you is actually really easy and simple. So you learn to cover them up, but they're not easy to cover up. So you cover them up with anxiety.
behaviors, substances, et cetera, that allow you to at least pretend like you feel normal, or maybe even numb the pain to an extent where you become unaware of it.
behaviors, substances, et cetera, that allow you to at least pretend like you feel normal, or maybe even numb the pain to an extent where you become unaware of it.
behaviors, substances, et cetera, that allow you to at least pretend like you feel normal, or maybe even numb the pain to an extent where you become unaware of it.
I think that's probably one of the best short ways to explain the underlying message. Joseph Campbell has a quote that I quote in the book that I love. The cave you fear the most is the one that holds your treasure. It's from a hero of a thousand faces.
I think that's probably one of the best short ways to explain the underlying message. Joseph Campbell has a quote that I quote in the book that I love. The cave you fear the most is the one that holds your treasure. It's from a hero of a thousand faces.
I think that's probably one of the best short ways to explain the underlying message. Joseph Campbell has a quote that I quote in the book that I love. The cave you fear the most is the one that holds your treasure. It's from a hero of a thousand faces.
And essentially what he's saying is it's a colloquial way to say what you just said right now, right, Drew, which is you've been running away from something. That thing is going to keep chasing you. It's not going to let you go. There is no way to run away from it.
And essentially what he's saying is it's a colloquial way to say what you just said right now, right, Drew, which is you've been running away from something. That thing is going to keep chasing you. It's not going to let you go. There is no way to run away from it.
And essentially what he's saying is it's a colloquial way to say what you just said right now, right, Drew, which is you've been running away from something. That thing is going to keep chasing you. It's not going to let you go. There is no way to run away from it.
You will take on whatever behavior, whatever habits, whatever relationships in your life, whatever ways of understanding the world to excuse running away from the discomfort. But the only thing to do is to stop, face it, deal with it, and resolve it. And once you do that, you find yourself not having to run anymore.
You will take on whatever behavior, whatever habits, whatever relationships in your life, whatever ways of understanding the world to excuse running away from the discomfort. But the only thing to do is to stop, face it, deal with it, and resolve it. And once you do that, you find yourself not having to run anymore.
You will take on whatever behavior, whatever habits, whatever relationships in your life, whatever ways of understanding the world to excuse running away from the discomfort. But the only thing to do is to stop, face it, deal with it, and resolve it. And once you do that, you find yourself not having to run anymore.