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Where do I find her? In Los Angeles. Is it more or less the same to be a psychologist in Spain, Mexico and Los Angeles? It is very different. Or rather, the problems are the same but their expression is different. In Spain and Mexico there is a culture of empathy that doesn't work here ... I'll give you an example: recently I was alone, looking bored at a party. A boy came up to me. He asked me: Can I take your phone to meet you? He was young, I cheat a bit with age ... I had to tell him: 'Come on, kid, go'. Can't you see that I'm bored here, that it's time to have a conversation, to take a little interest in me? Loneliness is much harder in the US than in Spain. There is the concept of the

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We don't drive in Spain, because in the US we have a constant fear of doing harm, that people will get angry. I put Almodóvar on my son, who grew up here, so that he understands the mixture of dryness and spontaneity that exists in Spain and the warmth behind it. I saw a talk from him that spoke of Mexico as a patient with low self-esteem. We are self-conscious. In Spain and Mexico. We evaluate ourselves according to our economic and technological wealth. And, of course, we lose in the comparison. But what if we consider other ways to measure ourselves? I know that many friends in Spain have it bad, but I also know that they will not be left without a doctor. That they have public transportation and are not locked in a hole. That their menu of the day has a gastronomic culture that does not exist here. In Spain we now have a new educational law.The summary is that we tend to lower the academic requirement because the opposite hurts children who do not arrive. That does not only happen in Spain. The world has become obsessed with not creating trauma. The boys reach 25 years of age with the feeling that they have done things the way they have to be and, suddenly, they find a boss who does not love them. And they break, because they don't know frustration. Children must be trained to cope with frustration through perseverance. Be careful: traumas are bad and the teacher must know that the stick that straightens one student, breaks another. But everyone will have to learn to relate to frustration. When I arrived in England, I worked 10 times more than anyone else because I was insecure with the language. Was it frustrating? Yes. But now I speak English, I took my award. So the idea of ​​authority ...? It is good that it exists. We are empowering, and I use that word consciously, children who still don't know what they want. What I see is that there is beginning to be a response to the imperative of happiness, so heavy and invasive. We are obsessed with a type of happiness derived from pleasure that is addictive and dangerous. That need to be eternally partying ... And since that is not found within us, we give control of our lives to the screens. Shall I tell you what you just thought to me? Sure. Tik Tok just blocked me some content about the intrauterine device. Have you gotten very angry? More than getting angry, I find that Tik Tok, which is full of hypersexualized girls, vetoes a doctor in psychology who transmits health knowledge ... I have six million followers in networks, I know what this is about. And it scares me.And that somewhat theatrical character that has been built? It is the consequence of knowing my environment, not my vanity. I know that I have very little time to capture the attention of the viewer and I use my resources. Maybe that theatrical character does more for the prevention of suicide in Mexico than the policies of many states.

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