PSYCHOLOGY – Complaining is a legitimate and human reflex, but it’s all about proportion.
Remember… Wearing a half-broken eggshell on his head, Calimero, a poor little black chick, had a lot of setbacks and repeated to anyone who wanted to listen: “It’s really too unfair”. From this cartoon character, created in the 1960s in Italy, the world of psy has made an eponymous disorder. “Calimero syndrome is the tendency to complain, explains Saverio Tomasella, doctor in psychopathology and author of The Calimero Syndrome (The pocket book). It is the need to express what is wrong, especially the injustices from which we suffer or from which others suffer. »
Like the unlucky baby bird, we also sometimes complain. Everything happens, or almost: the inclement weather, politics, this cold that falls on us, misery in the world, time that flies by too quickly, the lack of recognition at the office or benevolence in the family, the expensive life , the extra pounds… Unfair, too unfair.
The good and the bad side of the complaint
” Stop complaining ! »
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