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EPISODE · Aug 26, 2025 · 6 MIN

S2E87 | The Hidden Psychology of Avoiding Treatment

from Learn English by Listening · host trkenankement

There is a curious thing I have observed in myself and others—a peculiar reluctance that creeps into the soul when faced not with illness, but with the prospect of its cure. How strange it seems that we, who complain so bitterly of our ailments, should harbor such resistance to their remedy. Yet examine this closely, and you will find it is not so unreasonable after all.

There is a curious thing I have observed in myself and others—a peculiar reluctance that creeps into the soul when faced not with illness, but with the prospect of its cure. How strange it seems that we, who complain so bitterly of our ailments, should harbor such resistance to their remedy. Yet examine this closely, and you will find it is not so unreasonable after all.

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