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by RobertRoberts 1413 days ago
This is a lie I've heard for decades.

It's a lie people believe to justify loving themselves _more_.

The problem is selfishness (self love) leads to unhappiness, and the lie blinds them to the cause.

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The last psychiatrist has written a lot about that. He calls it modern narcissism, and uses it to explain a lot of what we call depression today. There's also the Christian notion of acedia, the ancester of sloth, that is not just laziness, but a moral failure due to selfishness and being self centered, and thus not doing things for others.

I of course won't go around accusing eveyone that's depressed of selfishness or moral failure. But reading about this helped me understand a bit better why I feel so unhappy when I'm surrounded by so many good people.

Do you have any examples from that blog? I started reading, and while it is very interesting, there are a lot of articles, and I have trouble finding the ones implied in your comment.