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Feeling Dead Inside? You Can Have a Fulfilling Life! Science Tells You How...Watch This! Thom Hartmann
When Abraham Maslow wrote the “hierarchy of human needs,” he may have overlooked a critical point. This overlooked basic human need may, in fact, be so critical to an understanding of human nature that understanding it gives us a revelatory flash of insight into the nature of personality disorders and specifically Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD).
This is what I call “The Need To Feel Aliveness,” and it also explains why some people have multiple jobs, mates, and lifestyles, whereas others settle into one fixed routine and stay with it their entire lives, apparently quite happy in their stasis. - 09/22/2023.