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Death anxiety may be unconsciously influencing your life but you can turn it around
Manage episode 421863711 series 5385
While we like to distract ourselves from the concept of death, Terror Management Theory, a school of psychological thought, argues that anxiety about our own and others' mortality drives many of our more perverse behaviours.
Some researchers are now arguing that death anxiety may be at the root of some mental health disorders. On the brighter side, we can tackle this and being more comfortable discussing death could help.
2674 episodes
Manage episode 421863711 series 5385
While we like to distract ourselves from the concept of death, Terror Management Theory, a school of psychological thought, argues that anxiety about our own and others' mortality drives many of our more perverse behaviours.
Some researchers are now arguing that death anxiety may be at the root of some mental health disorders. On the brighter side, we can tackle this and being more comfortable discussing death could help.
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