• May 2, 2024

What is envy? In the opinion of the Dr. Lilia Joya, professor at the Faculty of Psychology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) , envy is a feeling of impotence that is experienced when something is intensively desired.

This desire can be for a material good, professional achievements, academic, etc., and even up to the emotional stability of a person, which for different reasons has not been able to be specified.
 

However, when the good of others produces a deep uneasiness difficult to control, envy can become very destructive, full of resentment and hostility towards people who have not done anything to us.

Consequences in health

For the doctor Trinidad Aparicio Pérez, psychologist specialized in childhood and adolescence Sometimes, seeing other happy people makes us feel unhappy and it leads us to perceive our life in a way negative .

This provision of cheer up originates a series of negative reactions that can affect our health, for example:

1. Severe envy can create anxiety or depression , disorders of appetite and the dream , as well as various functional and neurological alterations.
2. Produce stress and, in many cases, it leads to acting in a hypocritical, disloyal and destructive way.
3. The self esteem and incapacitated to lead a healthy life
4. From the psychological point of view, it causes isolation and serious difficulties in our relationships because it can make us insecure, apathetic and conformist.
5. When it becomes something pathological, changes occur in the way of facing life, adopting defensive attitudes in some cases and, in others, taking the role of victim.
6. Can generate behaviors and feelings as contempt towards others, discouragement, anger or anger.

If you are one of the people who think there is "envy of good ", You're wrong, so if you get to identify this conduct or some of its consequences in your life, it is best to approach a specialist in search of help, for a better quality of life.

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