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Discussion on: Can You -- and Should You -- Stop Caring What Others Think?

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

I went deep into the abyss of depression for more than a decade.
My trick to get out of that was to find a fight that is bigger than me and meaningful to me.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. -- Nietzsche

Man's Search for Meaning is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose to each person's life through one of three ways: the completion of tasks, caring for another person, or finding meaning by facing suffering with dignity.