・Please refrain from calling out names in the chat section during premium broadcasts.・For business inquiries, please contact [email protected]. ・We are looking for interesting news. https://forms.gle/3hPMKeBtMTyeLz1V6 ・There are many books, such as How to Stop Hating Your Parents. https://amzn.to/45IJNFB ・Building a support network: YouTube also functions as a place where patients, their families, and supporters can connect, exchange information, and provide mutual support. Thank you for your cooperation. ーーーー00:00 OP 00:19 Loneliness is painful 02:14 Fast thinking, slow thinking 07:24 Mindfulness 09:32 Time alone 13:08 Resolving loneliness Today, I would like to think about solutions together with the theme of "Loneliness is painful, I only think about unpleasant things." ■Loneliness is painful In principle, loneliness is painful. Being alone and having no one. It's quite painful to endure absence. The reason is that humans are originally herd animals. Originally, or rather, it's still the same now. Because we live in groups, we are conditioned to think that being alone is dangerous. As proof of this, babies and children cry when they are alone, and we also feel a little lonely and anxious when we are alone in a foreign land or an unfamiliar place. Humans are essentially poor at loneliness and can't bear being alone. Of course, people with developmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorders, people with schizoid personalities, people with personality disorders called schizoids, people who have trauma in interpersonal relationships, and people who are very anxious are more comfortable being alone. This is because of the characteristics of the brain, and it is more painful to be with others than to be alone, so there are patterns in which being alone is relatively easier, but basically, being alone is painful. When you are in pain or anxious, you tend to think about anxious things. When you have these feelings, you tend to think only about unpleasant things. I think it's common to keep thinking about unpleasant things. I think there are people who can't sleep because they keep thinking about it. There are quite a few people who leave YouTube on and listen to the radio in order to sleep, so that they don't think about anything. ■ Fast thinking / slow thinking How to solve it. Patients often say, "I just keep thinking about it," but isn't that not thinking, but worrying? I say this in a way. To tell the truth, "thinking" and "worrying" are different. Ataka, who wrote the book "Start with the issue," also says that they are different, but it is quite difficult to explain the difference in a concise way, and I have been struggling with this in clinical practice. I wasn't sure how to explain it, but I recently realized that it would be easier to explain it if I adopted the ideas of Daniel Kahneman, a social psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economic behavior, and I would like to talk about this a little. In other words, it is quite easy to explain what you are worried about and thinking about by using Daniel Kahneman's ideas of "fast thinking, slow thinking" and "System 1, System 2". Fast thinking is brain activity emitted by the amygdala. Fast thinking is... The amygdala is the part of the brain that controls emotions, located from the center to the edge, and mainly deals with anxiety and fear. Daniel Kahneman speculates that the brain activity emitted from there is often called fast thinking, and this is how you use your brain when thinking emotionally or intuitively. You can act quickly. If you think something is dangerous, you can act quickly, or if you don't want to do this, you can run away quickly. This thought process is called fast thinking, and it means that you can make decisions faster when you think intuitively than when you think logically. This is what we call when you think intuitively. Fast thinking is the way of thinking when you are dominated by emotions, so it is easily distorted by excessive expectations or excessive victimization. It is difficult to grasp things accurately, and it is easily dominated by bias. We tend to believe someone because they're good looking, or because they're cute, or because they seem to have a high academic background, and we don't listen to them properly. This is called fast thinking. On the other hand, when we think rationally, we call it "slow thinking" and try to distinguish it. This is a way of thinking that mainly uses the frontal lobe. In other words, when we think rationally. It's not an intuitive way of thinking, but rather the way we use our brains to solve mathematical problems. It's similar to how we use our brains when writing or reading papers. When we are conscious of logical development, it is also called slow thinking. This is the thought process when we collect facts, verify them, and think