Trauma Psychiatrist on Breaking Negative Feedback Loops & Taking Control Of Your Life
Trauma psychiatrist Paul Conti joins Rich Roll to explain mental health as a structural system, offering tools to identify root causes of suffering and break negative feedback loops.
The gist
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Anxiety and depression are surface symptoms; finding what drives them, like unmet meaning or unprocessed trauma, is necessary before lasting change is possible.
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Notice your automatic self-talk in quiet moments, like driving, to surface unconscious negative stories about yourself that don't match reality.
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Conti describes three core drives: assertion, pleasure, and generative drive, and says mental health depends on keeping all three in balance.
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When setting a boundary, prepare your exact words, anticipate pushback, and plan what you will do if the boundary is violated.
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