Carl Jung and The Value of Anxiety Disorders
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Carl Jung believed that anxiety disorders, and other forms of neuroses, were not solely negative phenomenon. They may produce much suffering, but according to Jung, they also provide us with crucial information concerning our current way of life and how to improve it.
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The reason why modern psychiatry focuses on symptom mgmt is bc *most patients lack the insight and introspection* to heal themselves existentially. I worked 3 years as a guard in a hospital psych ward. I've had to restrain patients 2X weekly, was assigned to suicide watch half the time. I know these people. I talk to them. They are very dense. This is the typical outpatient:
They can't and don't differentiate between their own thoughts and feelings even though they understand the definition of these concepts and they lack enough self-control. Their attitude is: ''this is who I am; it sucks sometimes but I gotta be me''. The inpatients are worse.
It's not that that psychiatry is uncaring. It's that insight and self-control are critical to sanity but can't be learned by everyone past a certain age.
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7:20 "if we cease moving forward... we tend to regress to the immature..." wow that hit home.
I think we as a species are more immature than ever, thanks to all our gadgets and the comforts of civilization.
go on
@@fredrikolsson7568 yea Im also wondering if the whole thing can not just be applied to individuals but to society as a whole.
Moving forward toward what?
@@WickedWitchKING "applied to individuals but to society as a whole." Hmmmmm
"As Aryans, we can consider the State only as the living organism of a people, an organism which does not merely maintain the existence of a people, but functions in such a way as to lead its people to a position of supreme liberty by the progressive development of the intellectual and cultural faculties. What they want to impose upon us as a State to-day is in most cases nothing but a monstrosity, the product of a profound human aberration which brings untold suffering in its train." - Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
"The essence of the present day world revolution lies in an awakening of racial types-not in Europe alone but over the entire earth. This awakening is the organic counter movement against the last chaotic forerunners of the liberal economic trading imperialism whose looted victims fell from despair into the Bolshevist net in order to complete what Democracy had begun: the elimination of race and folkish consciousness." -- Alfred Rosenberg (Myth of the 20th Century)
"The greatest man of our times will be he who, out of a most powerful Myth shaping, also renews the souls of millions of those who have been poisoned and led astray. This old, yet new, type creating will, lays the foundation stone for that which hitherto never was." -- Alfred Rosenberg (Myth of the 20th Century)
"The fact is universalism suffers from the same sickness as its apparent opponent, individualism. The remarkable truth is that universalism is a twin brother of individualism. Mechanistic individualism and schematic universalism wish to lay the world in chains." - Alfred Rosenberg (Myth of the 20th Century)
"☀The folkish idea is falsified today by the international capitalists while the organic enemies of the nation call for the demolition of all standards and demand racial chaos, sexual collectivism, and unrestricted abortion" -- Alfred Rosenberg (Myth of the 20th Century)
"Finally, England, through the Balfour Declaration took over the safeguarding of Jewish interests in all states..it had handed over all control of all financial transactions to Jewish bankers such as the Rothschild, Montague, Cassell, Lazards, and the rest..since the end of the world war we have seen the almost total victory of international finance, which is almost completely Jewishly controlled🔯" ― Dr. Alfred Rosenberg (Myth of the 20th Century)
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"Whether as a thinker or an active creator, man must always serve what is highest He must arouse and arm all of the creative powers of the human soul. He must see himself as the struggling bearer of a world preserving idea. Man MUST NOT therefore, withdraw into WORLD RENOUNCING contemplation and asceticism." - Dr. Alfred Rosenberg (Myth of the 20th Century)
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_"True freedom of research, thought and creativity was destroyed. Vision and will become more and more the servants of speculation and impulse. This movement of the new freedom from organic processes necessarily revealed an alienation from nature. Abstract and schematic economic and political doctrines no longer listened to the laws of nature, but followed its impulse to isolate the individual. Thus a seemingly small perceptively critical displacement has brought enormous material misfortune all over the world. Day after day, a merciless nature takes its revenge until it will climax in the coming catastrophe. Then the so called world trade together with its artificial, unnatural substructure, will collapse in a world catastrophe. If an external pressure does not need to break a strong personality it will at least destroy it mechanically. Such an attitude and pressure can poison a people." - Dr. Alfred Rosenberg (Myth of the 20th Century)_
"Here, as elsewhere, one may defy Nature for a certain period of time; but sooner or later she will take her inexorable revenge. And when man realizes this truth it is often too late." - Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
"In proportion to the extent that commerce assumed definite control of the State, money became more and more of a God whom all had to serve and bow down to. Heavenly Gods became more and more old-fashioned and were laid away in the corners to make room for the worship of mammon. And thus began a period of utter degeneration which became specially pernicious because it set in at a time when the nation was more than ever in need of an exalted idea.." - Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
"Today, this inner voice demands fulfilment of the Myth of blood and the Myth of the soul, race and ego, folk and Personality, blood and honour. These virtues must triumph alone and uncompromisingly. They must carry and determine the whole of life." -- Alfred Rosenberg
"These things have brought about the decline of all states and these things will continue if the religion of the blood is not vitally experienced, expressed, and recognized in life" -- Alfred Rosenberg (Myth of the 20th Century)
"For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul." Leviticus 17:11King James Version (KJV)
"Bolshevism, which is in reality an attack on the world of the spirit, pretends to be intellectual itself. Where circumstances demand, it comes as a wolf in sheep's clothing. But underneath the false mask which it here and there assumes there are always the satanic forces of world destruction." - Joseph Goebbels
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I have never realized that anxiety is a warning sign to change our attitude toward life. Thank you and waiting for part two.
I just realized that changing my attitude to life has almost rid me of anxiety:
They probably met quite wackiest of messages conspired and she too isolate me then they watched for weeks and months how it develops.... Laughing their asses off watching me deteriorate and being completely happy with the result for I got easier and easier to manipulate...... Now you tell me they are good friendly people fucking Assholes
There u go !
@@fredericmoresmau4303 people are not assholes. They're either immature or mentally ill and you have to accept that. Sticks and stones may break your bones but why let what other say affect you? You can choose not to own what people say about you.
@@snacklepussPSN How did you change your attitude? What actions did you take? What changed?
Thanks
"The Fates lead the willing, but drag the unwilling" brilliant.
I hate being dragged around
Beautiful
@@Iaaronsp
My unwillingness to accept a truth is what I hate about any concept like that.
Words from Cleanthes, quoted by Seneca, among others.
This was exactly what I needed to learn at this moment. Some part of me was already naturally aware of this but hearing it reiterated just brings it home. I am suffering from anxiety, depression, neuroses and it is indeed because I am not living how I’m “meant to be”. Conflicted. Regressed. Neurotic. “Internal civil war” that hits me. I have begun changing my outlook towards life, I really have. Making an effort at overcoming my cynicism and self defeating attitude but this just solidifies it. The time has come to stop making excuses and start living again.
Good luck! Peace be with you friend
Landon Meador thank you and to you as well!
I recommend moving outside of your comfort zone. Thx for your post.
J Carroll you know that is exactly what I’m forcing myself to do... actually I’m literally moving out of it and planning on leaving my home state for the first time in my life to embrace a simplified lifestyle that’s more aligned with my values and outlook. As terrifying as it is I’m giving up the security and stability I’m used to to pursue the things I’m passionate about. Who knows, it could be a total disaster, but if I never try that would be much harder to live with. That’s what I’ve realized. Thanks for your reply.
DoctorSess I wish u all the best in ur journey!
You amaze me with how objective and distanced you can remain. On a medium where everyone is aiming at building a personal brand you stay steadfast to academia and the transference of knowledge. 10/10
Jamie Turner agree. This was a brilliant video. Much value added to the community!
Or he's pushing an ideology using outdated science, but you know.
@@xijinping4418 good call
why is that a virtue?
@@xijinping4418 is he pushing an ideology or simply talking about Carl Jung
I have only ever experienced anxiety when I've been doing something I shouldn't (being idle, doing a dead end job, stuck in an unhappy relationship)
When I learned to see it as a subconscious steering mechanism from the mind, attempting to move me from bad things.
As I changed my perspective on anxiety, I began making changes in my life.
I no longer experience anxiety as I move closer to a life compatible to my being.
Anxiety and depression should be listened to in the same way that we would listen to sudden onset of shooting pains in the lower back - our pain tells us to do something different
Well done on explaining this in such a clear way!
My anxiety flares whenever I leave my house, so should I not leave my house? Your logic is flawed when it is applied to irrational anxiety.
Anxiety disorder is overdiagnosed. Most who claim to have it have only experience rational anxiety in response to a bad or scary situation. It becomes a real problem when you’re deathly afraid of going for a walk or to the store or to an appointment or work. Of course I can tackle these problems by doing them, but when I go do them again and again, it never gets less scary. That’s anxiety disorder.
Yeah that only applies to rational anxiety, but it's a good thing to do nonetheless
Rational anxiety is a good thing. I have schizophrenia though so i dont totally agree that some of the things are anxious about are directly related to the thing I am doing right now being exactly the wrong thing for me to be doing.
I do believe I fight myself too much and that's when I experience the most worry and paranoia. I believe you should let yourself be as much as you can, and articulate your feelings to the best of your abilities.
@@Nakia11798 your nervous system has learned to fear certain stimuli irrationally. I would suggest learning more techniques to calm your system down with time if you haven't already such as breathing exercises, self talk exercises, writing exercises such as writng about what stresses you and what you can learn from that etc. Very very very slow gradual exposure to what you're afraid of might help too. Start of with finding your baseline and what you feel comfortable with say 5mins of walking outside per day for a week, if youre comfortable with that then increase it to 6mins the next week etc. Retrain your brain. Good luck
My TL;DR for this video.
Avoiding the responsibilities of life regresses ourselves to immaturity while our physical bodies matures. When we look into the mirror and recognise this paradox, anxiety grows.
i am so very young a soul! but life on earth has proved entirely aging for the most! it would have been nice to live in a more gentle era!
Great words
Lady Tate there has never been a more gentle era
Fuck🚬
So what are the responsibilities of life?
To all of us; stay positive and distract your mind as much that you can. Engage the creative mind. Leave social media. Continue your spiritual growth and it’s true it’s about the journey not the outcome.
I am a survivor and doing my best every day to help others and engage with life instead of watching.
Much love and light to all of you.
Peace ☮️
Danila Angileri Fake it till you make it. ☮️❤️
The quote at 4:37 strikes at the heart of the suffering of Western civilization. We're sad and anxious because he CAN be, because we don't live in circumstances that demand courage, or sacrifice or action. We're blessed with the luxury of freedom and choice, which of course leaves us with paralysis through analysis. That's why it's important to constantly expose yourself to circumstances that force your action, and restrict your freedom to an extent. So as to prevent indecision
Nice!! @thecharlessmith (instagram)
Very thought provoking analysis
@@lizhuynhkenny thank you friend
Nah I don't think so, the tough life may make you stronger if you survive but ultimately in most cases it cripples you mentally.
We're blessed with an illusion of freedom and choice. There is but one choice any of us can make, comply or die.
Besides Nietzsche, no other author has effected me like Jung. I just can’t get enough of Jung’s writing. So much self-awareness of his limitations and the limitations of psychology and yet profound insights into the history of the unconscious. You don’t read Jung. His works read you deeply. I can’t just read Jung casually. He forces one to reckon with themselves. I highly recommend everyone to read Jung. A good start is “The Portable Jung” and “Modern Man in Search of a Soul.” And then just keep going from there.
Thank you for your recommendations of where to start reading Jung! Much appreciated.
Thank you, I was looking advice for this! I'm a little bit confused in which of his book should I begin to read first.
Bruh ur gonna make us wait a week or two for the answer to overcoming neurosis? I thought once we recognized it we must correct it NOW! I got a life to fix here man! (I'm totally joking, I so deeply appreciate the content you provide for free, it's almost a miracle!)
Why dis nigga playin' us like dat? Jung's mah homeboy tho
Read the books.
Don't worry, you'll get your fix soon, keep it together!
@@detrockcity3 good point.
lol, i could feel the keyboard warrior in me about to leap (fingers first) into the fray. =)
This also reminds me of Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy where in his book Man's Search for Meaning
he emphasizes that we can always control our attitude towards a situation no matter the circumstance, and that the freedom to do so is one of our greatest abilities:
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Like Jung, Viktor Frankl also suggests that we should work on our attitude towards a situation and not let the situation itself become a mental barrier that we can't look past(which will cause internal conflict as stated by Jung).
Love this comment. It's a remarkable book isn't it? Dr Frankl was a true doctor of the soul and logotherapy is certainely worth mentioning. The will to meaning!
You have no idea how much this helped me. Thank you.
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THANK YOU for this summary and breakdown of Jung's findings!!!!!! - been in a rut for a while but legit think these insights are life changing!
NOTES:
01:12
Jung saw neurosis as signalling that a change in our way of life is needed
01:23
We cannot ignore this signalling as it means we are hindering our own growth - anxiety, depression etc signals for me to realise that there's something wrong with my life and I need to change it
02:07
The neurosis is actually caused by factors in the present - only here can the signalled problem be solved (present) - we makeup and believe a story about something that happened in our past which caused the neurosis - this is not true!
02:35
Jung didn't say ignore what happened in your past but the factor causing the neurosis is a conflict in your present-day life!
03:24
The Fates Lead the willing but drag the unwilling - Cleanthes (or Seneca?)
03:42
Jung believes that every individual is presented with a series of life tasks to accomplish - (kinda like our fate in a sense)
04:14
Tasks are: biological need to pass on our genes, psychological need to gain independence from our parents, cultivate a social life, find our purpose, face death
04:27
Jung believed all humans where naturally compelled to achieve these tasks willingly or unwillingly
04:35
THE PARADOX: HUMANS ARE EXTREMELY LAZY AND WE DEFAULT TO INERTIA UNLESS CIRCUMSTANCES PUSH US INTO ACTION (action often related to humanistic fate tasks)
04:58
SOLUTION - SEEK TO GAIN AN UPPER HAND AND BE THE FIRST TO MOVE TOWARDS COMPLETING THESE TASKS- THIS LEADS TO HEALTHY DEVELOPMENT AKA "FATE LEADS US FORWARD"
05:09
But if we ignore "fate" and live a life of inertia and un-intention then they become chains around our neck - we become the "unwilling who fate drags forward" - Cleanthes (or Seneca?)
05:14
THEREFORE THE NEUROTIC ARE THOSE WHO WALK AMONG THE UNWILLING - NEUROSIS SIGNALS THAT YOU'RE LIVING A LIFE UNWILLING TO FATE
05:24
YOU HAVE A FAULTY ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE TASKS OF LIFE
05:35
Jung believed that when our attitude wasn't 100% focused on achieving life's tasks that were when we become unwilling and thus neurosis signalling occurs (kinda like a signal to get back on the right path) --> when we're in a situation where we cannot achieve a certain life task it is best for us to reconfigure our life energy and reapply it to another life task
06:06
Interesting - the "insurmountable blocks" are actually surmountable but the neurotic allow themselves to fall for the fallacy whilst the healthy have the clarity to realise that they can achieve the life task set
06:22
1) Neurotic see's life task as insurmountable 2) Neurotic retreats from accomplishing life task 3) One part of the Neurotic's identity battles with the other (you can achieve this task vs no you cannot) 4) A LOT of energy is wasted in this useless mental civil war 5) Around this point Neurosis signalling occurs to show that you're walking among the unwilling and allowing yourself to become a slave to your own fate/ own fate to drag you/ become your master
07:10
The energy which should be used to overcome the life tasks flows, instead, to obsolete memories and past events!
07:24
If we cease to continue moving forward with the tasks of life we automatically regress into our past - infantile, modes of adaptation
07:31
This regression in response to our internal mental conflict/civil war is what CAUSES THE NEUROSIS!
08:12
Even though the symptoms of neurosis are uncomfortable and a struggle to endure - Jung believes they're an important way for our mind to signal to us that we are descending down a dangerous path! If we continue we'll end up in a vicious cycle where we retreat from life and regression from growth occurs → we notice our regression from growth which heightens our resistance to life even more → repeat
08:16
In the midst of being caught up in our own Neurosis, we ASK OURSELVES WHY WE ARE THIS WAY AND WHAT CAUSED US TO REACT TO THE TASKS/CHALLENGES OF LIFE IN THIS WAY
09:05
Jung states that there isn't a one-size-fits-all explanation of why ppl reacted a certain way when faced with life tasks and thus suffer from neurosis → could be genetics, parental upbringing, but for most ppl, it's likely to be a combo of genetic and env
09:32
OK NOW THAT I KNOW ABOUT WHERE NEUROSIS STEMS FROM AND WHAT IT ACTUALLY SIGNALS WHAT CAN I DO TO BREAK IT? → WILL EXPLORE JUNG'S IDEAS ON THIS IN FUTURE PLAYLIST VIDS
09:42
JUNG DOES BELIEVE THAT THE BEST WAY TO OVERCOME A NEUROSIS IS TO CONSTRUCT SOMETHING NEW - WE MUST LOOK FORWARD NOT BACK AND BRING A NEW ATTITUDE TO LIFE - SO WE CAN SHOW UP AND ACCOMPLISH OUR LIFE TASKS AND BECOME THE MASTERS OF OUR OWN FATE AND NOT THE UNWILLING DRAGGED SLAVE
These always come out when I need it most. So much so I even thought a video was going to be released today. Thank you for spreading such profound and vital wisdom and thank you for helping me and many others in our darkest times of life.
This is crazy because I am exactly the same
Jungian synchronicity
I with you. Times are dark, I hope it gets lighter for you.
@@thebeesknees2762 And same to you friend.
Hope we'll survive the incoming challenges.
"We're addicted to laziness" I'm not so sure about that. I felt like I was pretty productive and motivated prior to being crippled by anxiety and depression.
It's true that periods of productivity and motivation are usually less anxiety ridden, but I wonder which brings on the other: Do I work more because I'm less anxious, or does my decision to push myself to work more actually alleviate the anxiety? I recall many of the latter cases.
@@Moleshaveeyes Interesting question. I think a lot of depressed people get addicted to work to distract themselves.
@@ddcristo Yes, that's a form of lying. By work I mean that which needs to be done to better your life/self
It's true. I don't think I'm lazy, I think I'm depressed. When depressed we don't have the energy to do the dishes or even shower.
I don’t know if you’re still looking at this thread or if you’ve already found a satisfying answer. I don’t believe being addicted to laziness is meant to invalidate a chemically inflicted brain. More so it’s a common trend that we (humans) have a natural inclination to avoid things that frighten us, that would impose change, that involve lengthy hard work. If we can or would be content, we would avoid responsibility more than not. But this does not invalidate your depression or a chemical imbalance. This is my take in any case.
I developed panic attacks at age 11, I wonder how an 11 year old could have changed their approach to life. I was really brave and forced myself to do things when I grew up and my panic attacks would resurface. i.e. it is not that simple.
Maybe there is an environmental factor... phones in general.. social media - news etc.
Don't we just LOVE the sound of his voice?
“It’s hard” is my answer to why I haven’t texted the guy that can get me a job. It’s a completely artificial barrier. Moral lack, and thus cowardice, is the cause. Thank you for this video, I’ll be texting him first thing tomorrow.
Did you?
the less "adult" I am, the more morally conscious child I become. "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." J.K.
Jiggu krishnamurthi?
"It is sign of health to be well adjusted in spite of being surrounded by a profoundly sick society." Autonomous
After attending psychotherapy to deal with anxiety, I can tell you that this video is 100% correct. By learning to accept life as is, rather than how it aught to be, freed me to enjoy my flawed friends, my flawed family and of course, my flawed self. It was ultimately a change in attitude, from resistance to acceptance, along with breathing exercises which helped bring the heart rate way down before it manifests into a full blown attack. Therapy was the best money I ever spent. Hands down.
Here's the breathing exercise:
Take a slow, deep breath from your belly, not chest. Repeat until your heart rate slows down. It's so simple I wish I knew this trick years ago.
Sure, accept that abusive relationship, those abusive parents, that chronic illness that you can’t treat because you can’t afford it, it’s all about attitude after all 🙄🙄.
What do you mean to take a breath from your belly?
It’s actually if I believe right..? We all tend to naturally breathe from our belly.. which I’ve been taught is actually the wrong way to breathe.. we are meant to breathe in through our chest taking deep breaths in by expanding our chest out holding our stomach in.. which I’ve found very hard to do! It doesn’t seem or feel natural.. and is quite difficult to achieve.. but if you concentrate on this breathing technique.. by taking deep breaths in and expand your chest and not your stomach it most certainly will keep your mind occupied with the task and not the anxiety that you were feeling.. try it.. it can be beneficial depending on how severe the anxiety that you are experiencing.
@ohyesitsyouagain I have a chronic illness. Doesn't stop me from listening to the birds or feeling the rain dew on a Bush. Life goes on. Being happy is a forced concept. I'm happy living, even with anxiety! Doesn't have to mean anything! It's just a dumb primal instinct that isn't being used properly lol
"if we cease moving forward in life, we tend to regress to more immature/infantile modes of adaption and this regression in the response to conflict is what generates various symptoms of neurosis (pervasive anxiety, phobias, compulsive behaviors, apathy, obsessive and intrusive thoughts); but as uncomfortable as these symptoms may be they serve an important purpose by alerting us to the fact we are descending down a dangerous life path for while we regress psychologically our physical maturation does not cease and a glance in a mirror forever reminds us that we are not keeping pace in seasons of life in inexorable march of time The longer we exist in this conflicted state the less adapted we feel and the vicious cycle takes over whereby retreat from life leads to regression, and regression heightens resistance to life" CJ, The Theory of Psychoanalysis
The description of the modern soy boy and NPC SJW.
J Carroll yeah,that is really important thing here. I suggest 🤫
I was watching something on tv, a psychologist who worked with people at an airport who were afraid to fly. She said the worst thing you can do when you have a panic attack is to deny it, it makes it worse. I was getting them while driving. It helped me. plus I heard a person say our brains can confuse anxiety with excitement. I found that true too.
A lesson can be learned from any experience.
Anxiety disorders come from times of peace followed abruptly by time of disorder, decay, and turbulence.
This is an amazing explanation of anxiety disorders. I had a paralyzing OCD disorder - and still struggle with it, though to a much lesser degree - that manifested itself as intrusive thoughts and constant rumination. My therapist and I ended up realizing that these intrusive thoughts were a way for me to distract myself from important life choices I had wanted to make for a long time but kept myself from pursuing.
I discussed Jung with her and she started laughing. She's been out of school for 20+ years and doesn't recall any of this. Regardless, I think this goes to show, first of all, how ahead of his time he was but also how this observation might be much more universal than originally thought.
Through observing my thoughts and mood over time.. I also came to this conclusion two days ago...
One time, I can’t tell you exactly how, but I was able to put myself into this strange psychedelic state without drugs and it gave me morbid anxiety for about 15 minutes or so, and when it dissolved I was incredibly peaceful and present. I kind of learned how to put myself into it through will but I’m kind of afraid to do it sometimes bc of how deep it is. If you can somehow release intense suffering, there IS supreme peace afterwords.
One day while meditating, there was a question that arose that haunted me into the state of anxiety. As I watched the random thoughts and images that the unconscious would summon, part of me thought, “who is that?”. It was almost as if I looked at a mirror, but the one that had, in the reflection, a feeling that was familiar and at the same time extremely unfamiliar in a whole different way. It had felt as if I had betrayed my reflection by abandoning it long ago. Immediately after I had anxiety for about a month. It was when I had accepted it as myself, the one who judged everything the animal would do, when anxiety went away. It took me a few times of meditation to fully discover what I seemed to have abandoned unknowingly. As I came closer to knowing it felt as if you were walking against and ever increasing current. Although a horrible experience, the fruit that came from it was what now gives my life better quality.
damn, is this well timed.
Good luck👌
@@foamdinner4340 Thank you. ♥ 😢
@@TumbleSensei you got it man👾🏋️
Wish it came out earlier. Been subscribed for a year and have always dealt with intense generalized anxiety. Well, better late than never lol
Aquarius is often the time of the anxious in the northern hemisphere.
This is easily my favorite channel on TH-cam. Sometimes your videos seemingly come at the exact right moment for me. Keep up the great work.
A complete lifestyle change. I had to drastically change my lifestyle twice. I once took a $12,000 a year decrease in income. Turned out to be the best position I've ever held. The personal growth over 10 years was phenominol. I'm now changing everything again. It's been 1 month and so far I feel great. Never compromise yourself for a high paying job. In the end it'll ruin you.
This is so well articulated and concise....and the artwork is phenomenal. Much appreciation for these videos!
Jung was partly true.
If we focus present moment we could escape from neurotics.
But parenting, environment and genes play a significant role
Way too significant.
Maybe for some the present moment is unbearable, maybe the thoughts that arise in the present moment are so painful that you cannot take it. After all, you can think into the past and future but it is all done in the present moment. Maybe people cannot distance themselves enough from there thoughts to look at them objectively and even if they can are not willing to believe that they are telling the truth to themselves.
I've got a lot of demons, meditation/mindfulness is nice and all but it does little to remove the excruciating thoughts of the present moment.
Isaac Morgan there are no thoughts in the present moment, you are fully present and conscious, that is the present moment.
@@abercrombiefitch5431 Thank you for your comment. You are absolutely right.
just because youre paranoid doesnt mean theyre not after you...
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Thank you for adding to my neuroses.
Gotta find a way, a better way, the way I can!!!!!
The real question isn't whether I'm too paranoid, it's whether I'm paranoid enough.
Come on people now! Smile on your brotherrrr, everyone get togetherrrr, try to lovvvve one anotherrrr right now
This is exactly what I'm going through and have been going through for years. Excited for the next video.
I'm so grateful that I found your channel. You manage to condense the power punches of great thinkers into easier to digest videos. For those of us who struggle to learn via reading this is an absolutely wonderful use of modern technology and it has had a profound effect on my life. Thankyou ever so much.
obligatory "I usually don't leave any youtube comments but I thought that this could be interesting to add" comment,
I know this has almost nothing to do with anxiety but this really reminds me of how anorexia nervosa works, Anorexia for me at least, was kind of like a way to literally run away from my issues and problems instead of facing them and choosing to starve myself and focus on my weight instead of taking responsibility and facing my problems, so in that sense I feel that anorexia really reminds me of anxiety in certain ways
so yeah, just thought that this could be interesting to add :)
Jung > Freud
Nietzsche>Jung>Freud
@TreinsteinSchopenhauer describes the will , Nietzsche gives moral to the will
Schopenhauer, very interesting.
Literally Anyone > Fraud
Bob Smith I don’t know about that Jung built his ideas around feud and just changed them
Thank you this is really useful for me personally. Your channel is amazing, its existence and always growing following is the proof that there is still a lot of people that value this type of work.
I'm speechless how well this explains my mind and life. Thanks for making this.
I will accept this video as a sign for me to move forward on my treatment, leaving the past behind and moving on into the present. Carl Jung is one of my biggest motivations to continue to develop myself during psychotherapy.
This channel is also helping me so much I can't have the words to show my gratitude.
I can't wait to see the next part!
I already knew what was said in my head. I knew this was intuitively correct when hearing it. I still doesnt provide me the courage and will to overcome. That is what I need
It is such a pleasure to listen to the coherent and deeply meaningful lessons of your channel. Thank you so much for making them available to the public. Your work is cherished!
this really just summarizes the past 3 years of my life thank you
Hello, I love your videos. I've shared many of them among my friends and family. Thank you for making these quality videos.
"...usually the obstacles which impede us are not of insurmountable nature but rather what holds us back is *moral incapacity* - we are either too lazy or lack the courage to face up the challenge" CJ
Excellent content, beautiful paintings, and well thought out comments. Thank you all for this!
This describes a process that I went through a few years ago almost exactly. Keep up the good work
your topics are always sooooo interesting
Interesting how Jung seems to have such a fresh perspective on something as common as neurosis! Such good common sense with a healthy world attitude! Great man!
Gfroerer
And a brilliant mind too
Speaks to me so much... Thank you for your work!
Thank you so much for explaining Jung in such a clear and beautiful audiovisual way. It's helping me get a more tangible and clear perspective on my situation (: I'm also very grateful that you have cc subtitules in Spanish. Keep up the amazing work!!
Excellent topic! Such an important thing for people to reflect on considering how common anxiety 'disorders' are today, especially considering the generic view of anxiety and all too conventional overprescribing of drugs to assist people in their desperate attempts to escape themselves.
Is there something for anxiety that doesn't turn you into a zombie? I could use some. I realize this goes against your point tho
@@nanadaimehokage9934 you can take propranolol on an intermittent basis and once you get past the initial 3 weeks or so you stop feeling like a zombie when you take them. They are very good. I take 80mg slow release when I have to go to work 😊
I thought that was only for high blood pressure or performance anxiety?
@@nanadaimehokage9934 I've never needed anything personally, but drugs and other means can certainly be seen as tools. Apparently some people get good results with L-theanine. Probably a good place to start since it's basically just an amino acid found in green tea that happens to have an anti-anxiety and improved mental focus effect.
@@nanadaimehokage9934 Beta blockers are largely for performance anxiety. What kind of anxiety are you talking about that you'd like to have less of? I am schizophrenic so I can't take anti depressants, I don't want to take anti psychotics and I can't take benzodiazepines as I don't wish to sleep for 16 hours at a time. The propranolol itself actually blocks the effects of addrennaline, for me this is useful because it blocks the stress induced dissociation process that I was going through on a daily basis before taking them, which ultimately lead to the schizophrenia. However because I take such a high dose, I get palpitations and severe insomnia when the pill is wearing off, usually around 9pm at night.
I never had physical symptoms of anxiety before but since I've been taking them I have had panic attacks. I know that for some people the pills stop the panic attacks all together.
I guess it depends what you most want to stop for how effective the pill will be for you, for me it's the dissociation and racing thoughts, and it stops those really well.
I know alpha blockers are an option too, but the dosage is so tiny on them that I just wonder what they are really doing to you, and whether you should be putting the alpha blocker inside your body in the first place or not.
What an insightful video. I'm 26 and have been struggling with anxiety/panic for YEARS. Ever since my father's death. It's taken the form of Hypochondria within me.
We all need a purpose. In days gone by it was a struggle even to feed yourself and your family. People derived pleasure from survival and community. Now we all know we are "existing" in comfort. I guarantee you know my friend. If you and I were dropped into ancient times or say central Africa today all the noise in our heads and the emptiness in our hearts would quickly fade into the distance. It would be replaced temporarily by a "terror" but it would be a "purposeful terror" we would have to trust each other rely on each other and find other people to bond with for security. Doesn't sound like now does it. They even took god away now so the atheist tell us all is pointless. We have no meaning or purpose. It's hellish.
Check out dr Reid Wilson on TH-cam .
Try Alpha-Stim
Poeticjustice 254792 my trigger was my Dad as well. He suffered a traumatic stroke that left him in a vegetative state. The panic attack’s were just awful. I found that playing video or card games along with exercise helped.
This was so healing, thank you for this perspective !
Attitude is how we see the world, an image held in mind, projected outward and reflected back, change the image! A Reflection of Projection.
"The Fates lead the willing, but drag the unwilling."
Cleanthes
This makes me realize the levels at which humans since "very long ago" were capable of reaching, and how unalterable are certain truths regardless of how different the times seem.
Everyone is doing the best they know how to based on their experiences which I don't believe our coincidental but rather for the necessary purpose of learning. How else to learn but by making mistakes. I think we would do much better to encourage making mistakes rather than discouraging laziness, which is really just the fear of making mistakes. Fear creates fear, Love creates Love, these are the two paths and all choices are of one or of the other. We have to experience the different paths with different experiences in order to become Wise individuals. It's the process of evolution and seems unavoidable in general with differing specifics to keep it interesting. I think.
Thank you for this. It came at just the right time for me. I've been experiencing intense anxiety, and I now realize it is a result of several years of stagnation. It's time to create a new attitude toward life and take action. I'm eagerly awaiting part 2 of this.
Wow, this was a delight to experience. The ideas are bang on, the paintings are wonderful, and I appreciated the voice-over with interspersed quotes to read. Well done! Thank you.
But sometimes getting a grip on the past is HOW you create something new. I am dealing with this exact scenario now. My childhood was fucked and so I have a lot of lapses in memory. I have been watching movies I have not seen in 20 years and it brings some stuff back. Meanwhile I am getting used to writing, and working towards what I will ultimately decide for my project. I 100% agree that creating something new is how you kill the past. I'm feeling the push! Thanks for your videos. I really appreciate your work.
Jake Kleine yep that seems to be the trick to be able to move forward and not be defined by our past .
Oh my god. This is it. This exactly is what my problem is. Thank you, truly, for the video. I'm guessing the second part is not done yet?
Just wanted to say thank you for such amazing free content ❤️
Thought-provoking episode, waiting for next one for sure!
You can't completely base a life philosophy on very old science. Brain scans have shown changes caused by childhood abuse or neglect. So adults do carry real physiological mental realities from childhood into adulthood. There is always hope because of brain plasticity. Recovery is possible. Overall, really great video :-) Love Jung! Still very relevant
This brings some of Jung's concepts and validates them with modern assessements and research (link between congenital sensitiveness and proclivity towards anxiety disorders later in life): www.psychologytoday.com/files/attachments/36190/japaronjune04sensitiveness.pdf
"Still very relevant"...slow clap FFS...
How is possible if u expirience trauma in adulthood. And how to use brain plasticity?
This society won't hold long term. It will collapse under its own contradictions.
marccas10 Fast change is for rivers not rivers
No society will, expecting a society to stay the same is like expecting weather to stay the same. Change is the only true and reliable thing in life.
Without religion society will collapse IMO.
It’s purposely contradicted to create a horde of insecure group thinkers. The corporations feed the mind in this little era.
@@FugieGamers That might be true, however it will collapse with religion as well...
Every time I have a problem in life, AoI always posts a video to answer the exact problem I'm struggling with
My anxiety and neurosis was a direct result of my reaction to external stimuli. Events, the actions of others, and even my perception of what others were thinking were some of the things that I reacted to and my reaction was always far worse than the actual stimuli that I was reacting to. My reaction is the ONLY thing that I can control and once I learned that and put it into honest practice, I eliminated my suffering.
The people with mental illnesses, some of them, are from our past, striving to adapt to a seemingly bewildering world of the present with glimpses of our future.
Awesome art references 👍🏽
This channel has shaken me and forced me to become a better individual. Thabk you so much
So happy to see a new vid, and can't wait for the next one! I watch one Academy of Ideas per day. I love how you guys organize this info.
I think the quotes by Jung are right in many cases. But I have also seen the neurotic opposite. Many are work-aholics.
A situation where the drive to move forward results in hamster wheel spinning and the rat race, with little to no reflection. asking the important questions of whether the underlying drives pushing me to the right ends, are necessary. Or is the work I am doing creating a world worth living in or destroying the world I am living in.
The issue is congruency. So the nervous breakdown is an essential thing in these cases, that if we listen can cease the drive, find are more valid and valuable goal and head in a more appropriate direct.
Well it may be.
What i heard:
Anxieties may lead us to either solve its symptomatic, leaving us neurotic or it leads us to new and creative solutions so that we gain live.
Leaves us neurotic, almost most of times.
Great perspective and, most importantly, the most useful one regarding anxiety. Cheers!
It's a good day when Academy of Ideas posts a new video .
Whenever these series of videos talks on Yung, they talk straight to me
There is no wrong practice, only wrong attitude; pain and suffering are the best nutrients for growth.
What is health ?
What is sickness ?
Let me move forward with confidence!
satnamo I don't know, health is everything. It's like physical affecting the mental
@@dillonsgmail8819 True.
I love being strong and healthy until I die.
Thank you for your work on Jung. Its much appreciated
You have such a way of presenting the info in a digestable manner!
Thank you! And for those going through an episode of neurosis, i call it going through turbulences... write! Think in writing, it doesn't have to be a journal that you will read again, no. just simply write your thoughts, it will help you to sail through. I hope we can all become more loving and better humans
Anxiety is challenging to deal with but many people can thrive with that disorder! 🔥🔥🔥
It's very interesting to find you among thus channel.
How tho? By self belief bordering on delusion?
Thank you for more Carl Jung!!
Anxiety regarding whether the tasks you have performed may not be correct or as good as they could be or being concerned about your performance or how you are perceived is actually a good quality to have. Self awareness and introspection, examining how you perform and continually trying to improve and correct your faults is a characteristic of a highly intelligent person. I recall a quote to the effect that incompetent people don’t know they are incompetent.
our ancestors survived through history because they were anxious
That is true. But that very trait is now killing us in the modern world where there is no saber tooth tiger. This tendency has now become in my opinion detrimental to our evolution. The future belongs to the calm.
"The future belongs to the calm" please elaborate
@@thelordraj5412 well look around you today. The epidemic of mental illnesses. We have constructed a civilisation that mimics the threats of the past but the human psyche can't distinguish an existential threat from a challenge. So consequently the "can pay my mortgage?" "Or will I get fired?" Sends the sympathetic nervous system into overdrive. The sympathetic system was meant to deploy every so often when it was absolutely needed. Now it goes off every day and is creating a toxic blood system. We are now literally creating an environment that is killing us. Ironically we have never been so safe in history but our archaic nervous system is reptilian in nature and is scanning for threats that must me found. I now have come to the conclusion that our society/civilisation must change or we must be "changed". To my mind it would be to have some kind of manual switch for the sympathetic nervous system. You could think of it like a house alarm system. You don't activate it when at home in the day, but when asleep at night you activate it. Basically as the only species that actively moulds it's own environment we are making ourselves Ill and dysfunctional. The calm people are mostly sociopathic or psycopathic with a few exceptions. These people thrive in this toxic environment and get power and steer it even more in their direction.
marccas10 you have a point, psychos and sadists are alarmingly calm people especially when confronted with an anxious or neurotic individual
@@marccas10 good point sir
I think Carl Jung just called me out!
I've learned a great deal from this channel. Excellent work. Thank you.
As a thorough reader of Jung, these two videos on Anxiety are fantastic. Well done.
I'm not that neurotic, but I'm big on dreams. I heard a podcast with someone in cognitive neuroscience or something like that, I don't remember exactly, who said that all dreams are nothing but a kind of mental garbage. I beg to differ. Some of my dreams typically follow a theme depending on the nature of the stage I'm at in my life and/or some kind of significant element in my emotional life. My dreams are telling me something for sure. Sometimes they are pretty self evident. Sometimes I manage to decipher them and glean some pretty valuable insight, other times I just don't know enough about interpretation to figure it out. But to claim that they are all garbage is clearly nonsense.
QualeQualeson I’ve read that if a similar theme or motif constantly occurs in your dreams then that’s your subconscious life coming forward in your dreams and showing or teaching your conscience mind something. That’s mixed in with other mental refuse or garbage. I wouldn’t say it’s all mental garbage. That’s a fairly strong word to describe a dream though. That’s perhaps a clue to how this neuroscientist regards dreams. It’s a good idea to write your dreams down as soon as you wake so you don’t forget them. Over the years I’ve identified several motifs in my dreams. Thx for your post.
@Timothy Lee Hehe true :) You never know
Anxiety is perhaps the philosophical mood par excellence, it is the experience of detachment from things and from others where I can begin to think freely for myself. It was Heidegger that read this through the Christian tradition From St Augustine to Keirkegaard but could also be phrased as existential angst in the language of Satre and the Existentialists. Derrida would take it one step further and say anxiety is the mood par excellence of Capitalism. There's a high price to pay by living under this condition for too long but it can be liberating in the short term by moving people out of what is 'expected' of them within society and opening up new ways of how to live and think in the world. I just hope we can re-integrate and orientate those suffering from anxiety back into social structures and use their knowledge/experiences in productive ways.
Awesome
Beautifully made and a great topic for such a time
Thank you for making this information as well as other videos available, sincere appreciation.
can you add english subtitle in every video you upload if i may request? because english is not my first language and words in philosophy it's quite complicated and hard to understand thank you
He *always* links the transcripts in the description.
academyofideas.com/2019/01/carl-jung-value-of-anxiety-disorders/
Rugareth you can add subtitles on the corner where it lets you edit the quality, speed, and subtitles.
This channel only furthers my book buying habits, while regressing my wallet back too its primal state...
This was much needed THANK YOU!
Interesting, well done video. Thank you for creating and uploading.
It's been a week. I need a conclusion.
My anxiety was caused from my back surgery. I had an emergency discectomy. I believe my nervous system was fried by all the drugs they put me on. There are studies of PTSD patients and it has been found there is a chemical imbalance that once put back to normal the anxiety goes away.
Chemical imbalance debunked 2011
wow so simple yet so profound. a startlingly honest truth-speaker. you're videos always make me think so deeply. thanks so much for your channel; i always learn something new or see an alternative perspective.