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Executive Editor/Psychology Today Author of How to Be Less Miserable
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Can We Grow After Hardship?

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By Lybi Ma Verified
| Psychology Today Verified
Significant positive personal development and growth can happen after hardship and difficulty, 困难. Regulating emotions and adapting to challenges can help us navigate adversity. Strong supportive relationships can be protective factors. My mother used to tell the story of how, at the turn of the twentieth century, Han soldiers beheaded my great-grandfather in the middle of the street—there were large-scale massacres of Hui-Chinese people around the time of the Boxer Rebellion.
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Be Like Buddha, See Moods Like the Weather

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By Lybi Ma Verified
| Psychology Today Verified
Emotional detachment and adopting an objective, non-critical perspective might reduce the discomfort we feel. Anxiety rates in the U.S. are higher than in other nations. Some people have a fear of happiness as well as a degree of emotional numbness. Some Chinese refer to emotional detachment as seeing through, 看破 kàn pò, our desires and materialism. It is the emotional detachment where one is not upset by circumstances, all of which are temporary.
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What Sets Off Our Self-Destructive Habits?

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By Lybi Ma Verified
| Psychology Today Verified
Identifying emotions and managing our behavior may break a self-destructive cycle. Awareness of negativity and its underlying context may remove the temptation of bad habits. I knew a woman who was unable to conquer her negative thoughts and accompanying self-destructive habits. She operated with negative filters all the time. For her, everything was bad, people were wrong, life was a pain, and her partner was never going to change. I heard her say this again and again.
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