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Oh fun, a possible cause of affluenza:
It also divides people along socioeconomic lines. Many studies show that socioeconomic status is linked with people’s feelings of control over their lives, and psychologists have found that worse-off individuals tend to see their situation as caused by bad luck – they have what is known as an external locus of control.
Instead, when someone close comes to you in a time of emotional turmoil, one of the best things you can do is listen.
A therapist once told me the best thing to do when someone is distressed is try to enter the same emotional state. They want company in their feelings. It's like a more advanced form of listening.
They found that, regardless of culture, greater mental well-being is linked with feeling emotions that we believe are appropriate to our situation, rather than just having positive emotions regardless of context – “feeling right” as opposed to “feeling good”, is how they put it.
This makes sense - resilience should atrophy in the absence of "negative" realities.
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