Why You Feel Stuck in Anxiety, Addiction, or Depression
16 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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YouTube video (German) arguing that many mental illnesses involve becoming "stuck" in reinforced emotional, cognitive, and behavioral patterns. The speaker frames this 'stuckness' as an adaptive defense strategy ("Abwehrstrategie") that provides perceived control—examples cited include delusions and calorie control in anorexia. The speaker coins or uses the term "Kanalisierung" (canalization) to denote this inflexibility and contrasts it with "Plastizität" (plasticity/changeability).










