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For some years now, the columnist and writer Adolfo Zableh writes about himself. His articles and his books purport to be an x-ray of your feelings and emotions.
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Along this path he has discovered and said things about his life that have overwhelmed him and his readers. In this existential line is Find yourself, a book in which he offers his testimony regarding his findings and doubts regarding a wide variety of self-knowledge and personal healing therapies.
Said work, that borders the terrain of self-help, offers clues about what happens in the mind of someone who does not find joy in life, so things are good. At least in appearance.
It is striking that a writer decides to write openly about his mental health…
“Yes, that is a genre that is more current today than ever, because many people talk about emotions, feelings, and therapies. I suppose, since I had not thought about it, that it is strange that a writer who writes about other things, politics, life, whatever, which is what I have done these years, talks about the topic of mental health. . This book was more or less that: mixing some journalism, some literature, with exploration and self-knowledge. Now, I don’t think this is a book with answers or definitive solutions.”
Jerry Seinfeld recently said that we live in a time marked by confusion. Do you agree with that idea?
“There has always been uncertainty. There is a phrase that says that you should go to the doctor when you are healthy and not when you are sick. I don’t know if that can be applied to the sciences of self-exploration and mental health. Now, you don’t have to be bad for money or be bad with your woman to feel bad. In theory, you can be successful and be very bad. Andrés Iniesta is a very clear example of this. Just at the time when the world considered him one of the best soccer players, who had won a World Cup, he couldn’t find any reason to get out of bed and needed psychological help.”
This exploration of yours begins when a relationship ends. Will the crisis of monogamous relationships be one of the reasons why adults in their thirties and forties live in a constant crisis?
“Yes, in that aspect the Seinfeld phrase makes a lot of sense. Of course, the lives of our parents and grandparents were different, in theory. Above all, she was different in the emotional aspect as a couple. Before, people sucked each other for fifty years in a relationship. Now, if things didn’t work out after five years, it’s called bye. Even before. This is a time when, in theory, we have everything we need to be happy and we are not. We have many more tools in our hands to be happy and to develop, but we insist that the more things there are outside, that are pleasant and functional, that will make us happier. Things are not like that”.
At the end of this whole journey, did he find himself?
“I don’t know if that’s possible. I don’t know how useful it is to have certainties in life and how convenient it is. You are born and you die and in the middle you don’t know why you are here. And you have to invent something.”
