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I want to talk about the one constant of life in Hollywood: envy.
I’m thinking about a patient of mine, a screenwriter, that I saw in my practice some years back. Despite the gains he’d made in therapy, he felt his work was continually undermined by his envy of other writers. Read More
hardly accurate
Envy is jealousy, and jealousy is low-self-esteem.
Low-self-esteem is Depression.
You shouldn't normalize, the abnormal.
I guess we'll just have to
I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree, David.
I'm not too comfortable labeling feelings as "normal" or "abnormal," but rather think it's better to explore what a feeling means to you. Like envy. Otherwise, people fall into the trap of believing there is some perfectable version of themselves in the future who will never feel badly, or lose heart, or suffer. A perfectable person who will never feel a "negative" emotion. This is not only an impossible goal, it's quite un-self-loving.
At least, that's how I see it. But thanks for taking the time to respond to the column.
Envy and Jealousy are similar but they are not the same thing
Envy is the desire to have what another person has in their own life.
Jealousy is mental uneasiness from suspicion or fear of rivalry .
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