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There are just as many people who become neurotic because they are merely normal, as there are people who are neurotic because they cannot become normal.

That it should enter anyone's head to educate them to normality as a nightmare for the former,

because their deepest need is really to be able to lead abnormal lives.

With an education system that indoctrines us to think alike,

a mass media that ensures we fear alike,

an advertising industry that gets us to like the same things, and a social

media that makes it easy to shame and ridicule all those who step too far out of line.

Many people are conformists, but many in the modern day are also neurotic, and so a question arises.

Is there a cause and effect relationship between too much conformity and

neurotic illness? The great Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung believed there was, and in this video,

we are going to explore what a neurosis is and how being too conformist makes us susceptible to

this form of illness. A neurosis is a psychological disorder defined by persistent and deep levels of anxiety and an overall

fear of life. In addition to these cardinal symptoms, a neurotic illness may also include

depression, guilt, phobias, obsessions, and compulsions, excessive worry and rumination,

insomnia, irritability, or anger. Carl Jung suggested that the neurotic's fear of life was a result

of a disturbed or diminished process of adaptation and a morbid development of the whole of a personality.

A neurotic, in other words, is an individual who fails to adapt to the demands of life, whose personality is stunted as a result, and whose existence, therefore, becomes a continual struggle with little to no reprieve.

While the neurosis isn't necessarily fatal, it slowly but surely saps the vitality

out of life. A neurosis destroys our potential, places us in the constricting confines of an ever-shinking comfort zone,

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