Billionaires’ crybaby club: Someone get these whiners a bottle!
Billionaires crybaby club: Someone get these whiners a bottle!
by Joan Walsh at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2014/04/03/billionaires_crybaby_club_someone_get_these_whiners_a_bottle/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
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Maybe we need a public health campaign to warn billionaires about the dangers of self-pity: stress, anxiety, depression, isolation and illness. The authors of 47 Steps to Stress Management say that the effect of self-pity on the body is similar to chronic anxiety. A widely quoted 2003 study of self-pity in the Journal of Personality found:
Strong associations of self-pity with neuroticism, particularly with the depression facet. With respect to control beliefs, individuals high in self-pity showed generalized externality beliefs, seeing themselves as controlled by both chance and powerful others
Furthermore, individuals high in self-pity reported emotional loneliness and ambivalent-worrisome attachments.
Deepak Chopra says self-pity is linked to dependency, so clearly Paul Ryan ought to consider a crusade to change the culture of his billionaire patrons in addition to that of inner city men:
The issue is dependency. Self-pity is the opposite of self-esteem. It arises because you feel no one will lift you out of your difficulties. With no one stronger, older, wiser and kinder to help you, theres a tremendous sense of lack. You cannot find the same strength that these rescuers haveor you imagine them to haveand the ache of not being enough is felt as self-pity or poor me.
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