Ray D'Arcy

You and Zig and Zag and Dustin, Zuppi the dog, Snotser and Socky.

All of you.

Now, Coman Nocturne.

Talking about comparison and it being the thief of joy after this.

So comparison is the thief of joy.

That's a quote that's often quoted and credited to Theodore Roosevelt.

And Colman Nocter, who is a psychotherapist who helps children and adolescents, wants to talk to us about that today.

Good afternoon, Colman.

Good afternoon, Ray.

Yeah, so we've mentioned this in passing a number of times and it's been mentioned in a number of the interviews we've done with people like psychiatrists, Brendan Kelly, etc.

So it's a theme and it's the thing that's ubiquitous in the world we live in because of social media.

Okay, let's drill into it then.

Yeah, it's part of the human condition.

But I'm wondering how do people articulate it when they come to you?

Do you, you know, do they actually say, I go on to Instagram and I see, you know, John with his certain type of trainers or Mary with her hoodie that's a certain brand.

And I feel that I don't have what they have and I feel of a lesser person.

They don't say that, do they?

He's putting his best foot forward.

So that's a double failure, really, because, you know, look at me, I can do this.

It was easy.