Chris Haleua

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The playwright Anton Chekhov described the common belief that everyone else’s life is better than our own, writing: “Think of all the people who go to the market to buy food, who eat in the daytime and sleep at night, who prattle away, merry . . . But we neither hear nor see those who suffer, and the terrible things in life are played out behind the scenes.” Psychologists have shown that we overestimate our own emotional problems in comparison with others’, because most of us suppress our negative emotions when we are out in public. We are, as the psychologist Alexander Jordan has pointed out, ...more
Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them
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