Do you know what kind of mental state you are in? The book "Mr. Toad Goes to See a Psychologist" talks about the fact that a person's life is divided into three states: child state, parent state, and adult state; child state: adaptation and obedience. Children's emotions of releasing anger mainly include tantrums, anger, willfulness, depression, procrastination and boredom; father mother state: picky and criticized, parents' state love to criticize, angry and severe, and judge themselves or others like a judge; adult state: rational, adult state is when we do things in a rational rather than emotional way.
"Mr. Toad Goes to See a Psychologist" tells the story of Toad, who has always loved to laugh and make noise, suddenly became taciturn and could not be interested in anything. His friends concluded that he had depression , so they took him to find the psychologist Heron. During the psychological treatment process, under the guidance of the heron, the toad slowly explores its childhood, tries to regulate its emotions, understand its inner world, and control it.
As the process of heron guiding the toad to understand itself little by little, I gradually realized my current state and where did those inexplicable emotions come from? In fact, most of our emotions come from our parents.
For example: Toad has been facing his strict father since childhood. He learned to obey. When there is a conflict with his father, he apologized immediately; no matter what kind of achievements he achieved, he could not get his father's praise, so that Toad has always relied on and obedient to others to gain recognition from others. But through the heron, they kept asking questions: Then what do you think? Come and help the toad to know and understand, don’t just listen to the self in others’ mouths, but be the master of your own emotions.
Maybe you are also in a negative mood, maybe you are also at a loss because of your inexplicable emotions at a certain moment, or maybe you are also in the shadow of a certain childhood event, so you can read this book? I hope this book can help you get closer to knowing yourself, reconcile with yourself, and be the master of emotions.
