Why Psychology Can’t Fix Your Life

Psychology can help in social life, but it simply cannot touch the essence of the phenomenon of life as a whole

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I have a strange relationship with psychology — in a broad sense. On the one hand, there’s a lot of well-researched, highly intellectual work I simply respect. On the other hand, it can be extremely misleading when it comes to describing life because it touches only the mental aspect of life.

At a basic level of understanding, psychology presents us with the idea that we are literally a walking nervous system, which in itself is quite a dangerous false identification. But, it fits the idea of reality we live in, justifying most man-made nonsense as something perfectly normal.

Nowadays, people are completely detached from the reality of the physical world and natural life processes. They live immersed in thoughts and emotions in an ego-based society where individuals project various nonsense onto each other. Then, they wonder what’s wrong with them and learn about psychology, thinking it can fix something. It’s ridiculous.

In my previous article, I touched a little on our delusions and raised a simpler variation of the question, “Who am I?” that we can ask ourselves — and shock ourselves with the inability to answer it. The…