why cant i feel satisfied

Why Am I Never Satisfied? The Psychology Behind the Feeling That’s Never Enough

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Why Am I Never Satisfied

The feeling of never being satisfied tends to arrive quietly, in the gap between what you expected something to give you and what it actually did. It has a mechanism behind it, one that has nothing to do with gratitude or ambition or character. That mechanism is called hedonic adaptation, and understanding it will not

Never Feeling Satisfied: Why the Feeling of Enough Never Arrives (and What Changes It)

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Never Feeling Satisfied

The person who finally has what they worked toward, and still cannot feel settled, is not broken. Over two decades sitting with people at the end of their lives, I saw this pattern more times than I can count: the feeling of enough does not arrive the way people expect it to, and in most