You're stuck and there's nothing you can do about it
The Overwhelmed Brain
Paul Colaianni: Emotional Abuse and Relationship Expert
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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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. |
| 0:11.9 | Have you ever felt stuck? Have you ever felt like you had no choice but to accept circumstances as they are or as they were. Have you ever felt like |
| 0:24.7 | you couldn't get out of a situation no matter what? And when you thought about getting out, |
| 0:32.5 | you realized that that's just impossible. It's overwhelming. It it's impossible and then there was some limitation |
| 0:39.8 | inside of you and that limitation could have been i i don't believe it's possible i don't have |
| 0:46.0 | the money i don't have the strength i don't have the energy i don't have the time i don't have a place |
| 0:49.9 | to live i need um a job i need a car. All of these limitations. Now, I call them limitations. Some |
| 0:58.2 | people are going to say, but those are necessities. It's true. A lot of that, most of it is necessity. |
| 1:03.8 | But some of these things are limitations. I've heard them called limiting beliefs. I'm not a fan of that term, but if you want to use it, that's great. |
| 1:15.6 | But some of these limitations, we don't believe our limitations at all. |
| 1:21.5 | We just believe they're facts. |
| 1:24.1 | So we go through life with these, quote, facts. |
| 1:30.0 | And then we don't do the things that we maybe could do, would do, or should do, |
| 1:37.6 | because we think there's a fact holding us back. |
| 1:43.5 | This has happened to me a number of times. There's a fact holding us back. This has happened to me a number of times. |
| 1:47.4 | There's a fact holding me back. |
| 1:49.6 | For example, when I lived in Florida with my soon-to-be wife back then, my previous wife, |
| 1:58.0 | and the issue was I couldn't pay my mortgage on a condo that I was renting out |
| 2:03.6 | in Florida. And the fact was I couldn't do anything about it. I'm stuck. I can't pay it. The |
| 2:12.5 | renter stopped paying. The property manager sucked. They were terrible. They didn't report to me all the |
| 2:21.4 | damage that the person was doing. They were smoking in the unit and they, I mean, they were |
| 2:26.3 | just destroying it. In fact, later on, just to jump ahead, my realtor when I went to try and go |
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