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society's idea of healing is completely wrong

@alexajaclynn

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The video uses a contrarian hook that challenges a widely held belief about mental health, encouraging viewers to engage with the content by questioning their own healing processes.

Summary

The creator argues that modern society prioritizes Freudian methods of dwelling on past trauma over Adlerian methods of focusing on future goals and happiness. She suggests that the focus on past trauma is a way to keep people stuck and miserable.

Structure

1Challenge the status quo of mental health healing
2Contrast Freudian and Adlerian psychological approaches
3Explain the benefits of focusing on future goals
4Critique the societal focus on past trauma
5Conclude with a call to shift focus toward personal potential

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society's idea of healing is completely wrong Why do you think they went the freudian route of mental illness? Talk about your childhood trauma, learn your ego conflicts. Keep focusing on the things that make you sad, cause that will somehow make your life better. Whereas alfred adler's ideals were rejected. Why you focus on things that make you happy. You wanna strive for significance in the world, how you're gonna help other people, how you're going to be a magnetic force of just happiness and joy to be alive. How you are going to reach your dreams. Focusing on those future goals, focusing on social interest, focusing on everything that you want. That is how you obtain peace and happiness. Not breaking down why you were abused as a child. Or breaking down why all of these bad relationships you have. Yes, it's important to know what things cause patterns. But after you know what things cause patterns, you let it go and you focus on things that make you happy. And yes, it is that easy. And because that is the method. But that method doesn't keep you sick, it doesn't keep you sad, it doesn't keep you depressed, it doesn't keep you in a cycle of I hate my life. So of course they're gonna sell you the things that keep you miserable so you don't reach your potential.

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this might sting but modern day societal ideas about healing our trauma are completely false… Freud wants you to focus on the past. Adler wants you to focus on the future. See how one sounds significantly better than the other?? See why we went the Freud route. It keeps you sick. It keeps you in negative loops. It keeps you stuck spiraling. Perfect for the people in positions of power to keep us down. The best way to heal isn’t though breaking down trauma over and over and over and over and over until we’re in a constant loop reliving horrible experiences over and over until we die. yes early childhood experiences are extremely important in determining how we walk through life, but that is not ALL we are. it’s important to know where patterns may stem from, but focusing on that every day, every healing session, will never get you out of that identity. CREATE A NEW IDENTITY. create a new destiny. you are more than capable than starting over and becoming the person you want to be. #healing #nervoussystemhealing #enlightenment #dreamreality #higherself