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The Overwhelmed Brain

The massive, impossible, overwhelming circumstances that make life feel hopeless

The Overwhelmed Brain

Paul Colaianni: Emotional Abuse and Relationship Expert

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Problems can add up, compound, and create a situation so impossible to get out of that there seems to be no hope. Is it total defeat or is there anything you can do?

Transcript

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0:00.0

These are my personal opinions, always seek a professional when you're making choices about your mental health and well-being.

0:11.1

It is the I Don't Know show. It's the episode that I look at questions that I've received that I just can't answer.

0:22.4

There are people that have issues, challenges, things they're going through that I can relate

0:31.0

to, absolutely.

0:32.5

You can relate to, absolutely.

0:35.2

But do you have a solution?

0:41.5

Do you have the magic pill for someone who's going through something so challenging so debilitating so defeating that you can say all you need to do is this

0:49.6

i have a lot of those answers that i do not share, not here, but in my marriage, because I've

0:58.7

learned, if somebody's not asking for the answers, I won't give them unless there's an agreement

1:05.8

that that's what they want. But I've learned, especially in relationships, that you don't just

1:10.5

automatically say, well,

1:11.4

all you need to do is this because some people like to figure stuff out and some people just like

1:17.1

to vent or some people just like to talk and not look for an answer. They're just thinking out

1:22.3

loud. I had to learn that in my last marriage and I learned it so well, but not well enough because I still did it a few

1:30.3

times in this marriage and now I've learned I think permanently that I'm not going to just offer

1:38.9

solutions like that. You know my history, my experience is different than yours. What comes easy to me might come

1:47.7

difficult for you and what comes easy for you might be difficult for me. Like I got this message

1:54.4

that somebody asked, how do you overcome overwhelm? That's what this show is about. They overwhelm the

2:00.4

brain. And I don't necessarily talk about overwhelm in general, but every specific thing I do talk

2:08.3

about helps you overcome overwhelm.

2:12.1

Every, all the 500 plus, almost 600 episodes now that I've had this show going on since November of 2013.

2:21.3

I've talked about how to overcome overwhelm by doing something very specific

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