Psychologist R.D. Laing used to tell a story of a prisoner who was sitting in his cell. One day the guards come and open the gate and say “Your time is up. You’re free to go.”
Unusually, the prisoner says “No, I’m not going anywhere. I’m not leaving this place until I understand the exact circumstances which lead to my being here.”
It might sound strange, but many of us take a similar course of action when we find ourselves in depression, anxiety, or other unfavourable mental states.
We might not know how we got there… But we have the power to walk out.
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