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#298 ‒ The impact of emotional health on longevity, self-audit strategies, improving well-being, and more | Paul Conti, M.D.

2024/4/15
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Peter Attia：探讨了情绪健康对健康跨度和寿命的影响，以及如何主动提升情绪健康，并提出情绪健康可以随着年龄增长而提升的观点。他强调了认知健康、身体健康和情绪健康对健康跨度的重要性，并指出情绪健康是唯一一个不一定会随着年龄增长而恶化的因素。 Paul Conti：认同情绪健康通常会随着年龄增长而下降，但这并非必然。他认为，积极的自我关照、保持对新事物的好奇心和学习的意愿，以及保持积极的心态，可以改善情绪健康，甚至使其随着年龄增长而提升。他强调了社会对衰老的负面认知是社会建构，可以通过改变观念来改善情绪健康。他还指出，关注内在感受、自我对话以及潜在行为动机，对于评估情绪健康至关重要。 Paul Conti：详细阐述了人类的三种驱动力：创造力、进取心和享乐。他认为，这三种驱动力需要保持平衡，才能获得真正的幸福和健康。创造力驱动力是人类特有的驱动力，它推动着人类的创造和发展。当创造力驱动力得到满足时，人们会感到快乐和满足，并能更好地照顾自己的身心健康。他还探讨了目的感、满足感和人际关系在情绪健康中的作用，并指出，即使在物质条件优越的情况下，如果创造力驱动力没有得到满足，人们也可能感到不快乐。 Paul Conti：提出了评估自身创造力驱动力的方法，即进行内省，关注自身感受、自我对话以及对生活的态度。他强调，要克服对负面情绪的偏见，关注内在感受，并保持对自身和外部世界的求知欲。他还指出，要区分由饥饿和压力引起的进食行为，并保持对自身行为的觉察和好奇心，才能更好地管理情绪。

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Emotional health plays a crucial role in overall healthspan and lifespan. It's important to prioritize emotional well-being as we age, as it can improve over time with deliberate effort, unlike other aspects of health that tend to decline. This involves understanding and nurturing our internal emotional landscape.
  • Emotional health can improve with age.
  • Intention and self-care are crucial for emotional well-being.
  • Emotional health influences physical and cognitive health.
  • Societal norms often negatively bias our perception of aging.
  • Maintaining curiosity and an expansive mindset are key to emotional health.

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Paul Conti is an author and practicing psychiatrist who specializes in helping people heal from trauma. In this episode, Paul returns to The Drive to delve into the intricate relationship between emotional health, healthspan, and lifespan. He first challenges common assumptions about the inevitable decline of emotional health with age, providing strategies for conducting a comprehensive audit of internal emotional health. He establishes a framework for the foundation of good emotional health: a balance between the generative drive, the assertive drive, and the pleasure drive. Paul also explores the nuanced dynamics of motivation, happiness, and satisfaction as it relates to material possessions, draws connections between physical and emotional well-being, confronts the impact of negative self-talk, and describes how making peace with our mortality can foster a sense of hope, purpose and well-being. Additionally, Paul offers many practical insights into initiating emotional health improvements and navigating the search for a suitable therapist.

We discuss:

  • The importance of prioritizing emotional health as we age [2:45];
  • The impact of emotional health on healthspan and how to foster a proactive approach to emotional well-being [7:00];
  • The discrepancy between outward success and inner fulfillment, and the importance of a healthy “generative drive” for genuine well-being [13:00];
  • A deeper dive into generative drive: impact on human behavior, resilience, purpose, and more [23:15];
  • Evaluating one’s inner self: introspection, self-awareness, challenging societal norms, and returning to the basics of physical and emotional well-being [29:00];
  • Self-auditing tools: introspection, curiosity, and exploring underlying reasons for unwanted behaviors [41:45];
  • Breaking free from destructive cycles by understanding the continuum of self-care and addictive behaviors and remaining curious [50:15];
  • Critical self talk: the malleability of one’s inner dialogue and the potential for transformative change with perseverance and self-compassion [1:00:15];
  • Slowing the anger response and gaining insights into the underlying triggers to achieve lasting change and self-understanding [1:13:45];
  • Foster gratitude and humility by achieving balance between the three drives—assertion, pleasure, and generative [1:20:45];
  • The conflict between intellectual understanding and emotional feelings, problematic comparison frameworks, and the importance of living in the present with intentionality [1:24:15];
  • How making peace with our mortality can foster a sense of hope, purpose and well-being [1:34:45];
  • Advice for finding a compatible therapist [1:43:45];
  • The key components of therapeutic progress [1:57:00];
  • The caricatures of four common patient phenotypes, and how to get through to them [2:05:30];
  • How Paul manages his own well-being and the emotional challenges that come with his line of work [2:15:15]; and
  • More.

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