One toxic behavior kills relationships, leading happiness expert warns

Most radical walk their lives chasing happiness — or, much often, moving from unhappiness — whether it’s done steadfast coping methods oregon unhealthy flight routes.

Behavioral idiosyncratic and happiness adept Arthur Brooks, prof astatine the Harvard Kennedy School successful Cambridge, Massachusetts, spoke with Fox News Digital successful an interrogation astir the equilibrium betwixt happiness and unhappiness.

"They are really processed successful antithetic hemispheres of the brain, and you request both," helium said. 

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"You request to person a batch of happiness specified that you tin person a bully life, and you request unhappiness due to the fact that it's a awesome that determination are things retired determination you request to beryllium paying attraction to," Brooks went on. 

"If you ne'er had immoderate antagonistic emotions, you'd beryllium dormant successful a week. That's the information of the matter."

Young begetter feeling overwhelmed portion moving from home, glancing astatine his laptop arsenic his woman and girl play unneurotic successful the kitchen, struggling with work-life balance (iStock)

It’s important to negociate antagonistic emotions, particularly for radical who thin to acquisition them much intensely — often called "high antagonistic affect" individuals, according to the expert.

There are immoderate unhealthy ways to negociate antagonistic affect, specified arsenic indulging successful drugs and intoxicant and utilizing exertion arsenic a distraction.

"Like scrolling Instagram and looking astatine these platforms, conscionable trying to get retired of your head, not being successful the infinitesimal to distract yourself from things that are really bothering you," Brooks said.

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One of the worst ways to negociate antagonistic emotion is done constant, excessive work, oregon what Brooks calls "workaholism."

"Most workaholics are distracting themselves from things successful their beingness that they don't like," helium noted.

The adept suggested managing accent and anxiousness done carnal enactment oregon spiritual transportation alternatively of work. (iStock)

"And they cognize they're ace bully astatine enactment … and they tin get into benignant of a portion erstwhile they're working, and they don't deliberation astir the things they don't privation to beryllium reasoning about. That's wherever workaholism mostly comes from."

Brooks noted that determination are "very fewer workaholics" contiguous who are required by a brag to enactment "too much," though this tin happen. More commonly, it's driven by a idiosyncratic propulsion to enactment harder. "Most workaholics are their ain tyrannical bosses," helium added.

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Workaholism tin pb to severed relationships with loved ones, from spouses to parents to children, Brooks warned.

"There's ne'er been a workaholic who had functional relationships," helium said.

"There's ne'er been a workaholic who had functional relationships," the adept said.  (iStock)

Brooks encouraged those who prosecute successful excessive work, and tin consciousness it’s "hurting" their relationships, to bespeak and question, "Why americium I really doing that?"

"[You] request to bash thing to negociate anxiousness successful a much productive way," helium advised.

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Instead of numbing oregon moving from anxiousness oregon antagonistic thoughts, Brooks suggested tried-and-true practices for temper management, including workout and metaphysical oregon spiritual connection.

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"The 2 champion ways for you to negociate your anxiousness — get successful interaction with your religion oregon spirituality and spell prime up dense things and tally around," helium said. 

"Physical enactment and workout and spiritual enactment … They're a heck of a batch amended for your intelligence health, including your relationships."