4 Ways to Reject Reality (Denial: Root of all Failure)

[@stellar_cartographer]

Sam this is perhaps my all time favorite work of yours yet. Oddly enough I’m currently deep into researching dissociation, and hearing your view on the entire mechanism from start to finish is a wellspring of knowledge and wisdom in 30 min. Thank you Professor!

[@samvaknin]

Watch the trauma and dissociation playlist.

[@truthseeker2391]

Great sense of humor, de nile

[@stoicfreediver]

I have been watching your channel for years. This is might be your best, most insightful video ever in my opinion. Thank you!

[@tiakennedy1681]

Thank you 🙏

[@olgakozlova4413]

Amazing! Thank you!

[@leon7e]

Acceptance and awareness is the way to healing. So then denial can be a form of temporary protection to say a child that has been subjected to traumatizing events when repression fails?

[@Zwiebly]

My mind after watching this video: What are you hiding? Wait I am talking to myself. No way I could have been hiding anything from myself. Right? oh god... I'm not in denial, I'm not in denial, I'm not in denial. Puuh dodged that one.

[@acmvnate]

Is there any medicine for fixing the really issues?

[@Drogonmoon]

There are many drugs for mental illnesses.

[@samvaknin]

No.

[@Tureco-Audiovisuales.]

the denial in israel is huge, we think our leaders are not psychos and we think our cousins like us.

[@safchojuk]

Is there a way to stop/reduce fantasies?

[@samvaknin]

Fantasies are healthy unless and until they take over and become indistinguishable from reality which is when a therapeutic intervention is required.

[@danielledaisley6166]

Dr. Vaknin, can certain mental illnesses cause a similar sensation of Denial though? I feel like that's the case with OCD it makes a lot of thoughts feel real, so you go about trying to deny these thoughts as a compulsion for pure o.

[@samvaknin]

Denial and other defense mechanisms are clinical features of many mental illnesses and disorders.

[@lizmandelaine6863]

@@samvaknin wondering, what are your thoughts on anosognosia?

[@waleskaaddams]

Hi!! Do you have videos on Maladaptive Daydreaming?

[@lizmandelaine6863]

@ Interesting.

[@leon7e]

DE-Nile is a river n Egypt...Info noted Sam 🤣😂🤣😅

[@GG-rh2uk]

Hello professor,in an interview you said individual could choose outside(go narcissist , get accepted ,...) or inside ( developing the self which has a methodolgy, based on Heidegger i think) .what's the methodology ? Is there a way to develope the self but also take part outside without becoming a Narc? Thanks

[@samvaknin]

Watch the Life’s Wisdom playlist.

[@GG-rh2uk]

Thanks

[@Ravenafeedsravens]

A valuable lecture. Is propaganda a sub-"genre" of fantasy?

[@samvaknin]

It is used in order to create a collective shared fantasy.

[@TransilvaniaRotterdam]

Professor, haw do you get this rational intelligence? I personally struggle to understand the human mind

[@Kitkat-u9x]

How does someone get set free from delusion? It seems incurable. Does God himself have to intervene and lift the delusion. We don’t have the answers I’m guessing only God does. The Bible verse “the truth shall set you free” never rang so loud.

[@mgem1611]

If you have money problems buy a rental property

[@de-nz4jp]

I have a rental property, my tenant just moved leaving thousands of dollars of damage, I find it hillarious that I have manifested the opposite of what I intended to...😅😅ps. I rarely suffer from denial ..😉

[@mgem1611]

@de-nz4jp fix it and sell it

[@de-nz4jp]

@@mgem1611 yes, it's good to have options..

[@mgem1611]

Good joke

[@albket1892]

As Egyptian woman can't agree more 😂😂😂😂 it is one of the most used defensive mechanism here 🫠