To what extent does boredom the lack of stimulation and true challenge cause your clients problems? Or even, dare I say it, you or I sometimes?

This video is all about the Devil. Well not specifically, but it is about boredom and the potentially terrible effects of not being challenged and stimulated. It's been said, you see, that 'the devil makes work for idle hands.'

Boredom is toxic and its effects can be worse than many realize. From gambling or having affairs or bullying and even 'murder for kicks' to feeling life is meaningless, not meeting our need for challenge has consequences.

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00:00 Introduction: The Dark Side of Your Emotional Needs: Challenge
00:17 When have you felt most alive?
01:42 The human givens
02:46 Are you a high or low gainer?
04:32 Does overstimulation lead to boredom?
05:45 The siren call of the unmet need
06:57 Rationalizing, justifying and lying to ourselves
08:47 Imagination: a tool for selfharm?
11:41 Mayhem and murder for kicks

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++About Mark Tyrrell++

Psychology is my passion. I've been a psychotherapist trainer since 1998, specializing in brief, solution focused approaches. I now teach practitioners all over the world via our online courses.

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