“But I have everything to be happy…” Haven’t we heard ten times, a hundred times that this formula has become a cliché, even a cliché? Was it not even secretly thought or expressed with guilt? What does this vase of desire that we must constantly fill say about us?
Most people who consult Ines Weber, the author of Psycho Stay as you are (1), ticked all the boxes in our society’s model of success (degrees, careers, family, housing, entertainment), but the sum of all these achievements does not equal happiness; something is missing. This pattern, the psychologist sees it forming every day. In his office, he does not meet “great neurotics or great disordered personalities, but can know their limits and look for solutions.”
So is this lack an unacceptable confession? Of course not. “These issues are specific to people, they are not morbid.” When some come and feel bad, he tells them: “Welcome humans,” soothingly. “It’s just that these existential questions are no longer being addressed anywhere but in psychological offices.” He sees in it the result of an era. “Religions no longer have a central place…
Source: Le Figaro
