Carl Jung — You Are Not What Happened to You
Get comfortable with your truth
In psychology, learned helplessness is a common affliction that we all experience occasionally.
It refers to the inability to take control over external events and a tendency to accept one’s fate as inevitable.
When something bad happens to us (a failure, rejection, loss), we tend to assume that it is beyond our control and that we are powerless against it.
The thought process usually goes like this:
“What did I do wrong? Why does this keep happening to me?
There must be something about me that makes people not want to be around me or associate with me”.
And if we are surrounded by people who constantly reinforce these ideas and make us feel even more miserable about ourselves, then things can spiral out of control quickly, and we may very well develop full-blown depression.
The stories we tell ourselves change the trajectory of our lives, even if we don’t realize it.
So many people feel stuck or dissatisfied with their current life because they can’t derail their negative perceptions of themselves.
The people in your life may pull at you and cause some pain, but they can’t hold you back…
