What to do when someone you care about shows more excitement about their interests than you

The Overwhelmed Brain

Paul Colaianni

Therapy, Emotions, Sad, Health, Mental Health, Personal, Abuse, Anxiety, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Psychological, Self-improvement, Mind, Stress, Emotional, Anger, Philosophy, Divorce, Psychology, Addiction, Happiness, Happy, Development, Thinking, Success, Education, Frustration, Sadness, Manipulation, Resistance, Brain, Depression, Overwhelm, Mental

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🗓️ 20 October 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Some people like things we don't. Some get excited over the things we find uninteresting. What happens when their interests become more exciting to them than us? Do we accept our place in their line of priorities? Or is there a win-win in here that we may not have considered?

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0:00.0	These are my personal opinions.
0:02.0	Always See good professional when you're making choices about your mental health and well-being.
0:06.0	Someone asked me about obsession again.
0:15.0	Again.
0:18.0	Again, I've actually said on this show probably three times now
0:22.0	that I'll never talk about obsession again.
0:25.0	So I'm not going to. I'm just going to address this one message I received about someone going through their obsessive thinking, first this is my stock answer.
0:37.0	Go to the overwhelmed brain.com and type the word obsess in the search field.
0:43.9	And you will find several articles and episodes
0:46.6	that I've created that really get into depth
0:49.7	as far as how much I have addressed obsession and what I believe are some paths out of it.
0:58.3	It could be very helpful to you if you are dealing with any type of obsessive thought.
1:02.3	Now I'm going to address this person's question really quick
1:05.5	and very specifically because they have been in counseling
1:10.0	on and off for over 20 years.
1:13.0	And for the last three and a half years, they can't stop sabotaging their new healthy relationship
1:20.9	because of their obsessive thinking. Because they're past relationships.
1:25.0	They've experienced abuse and betrayal and I'm sure they have PTSD and they just can't get past it.
1:32.0	They can't get past it. They can't heal past it.
1:35.0	And so here we are. This person's obsessing about what their partner does and the
1:40.0	text messages and the phone calls that they get, thinking that, what if this partner,
1:45.7	what if this person that I'm supposed to be happy with also betrays me, also hurts me. So there's their obsessive thought and again go to the
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