When you check out Collins dictionary you see a double life as “If you say that someone is living a double life, you mean that they lead two separate and very different lives, and they appear to be a different person in each.” In the British English its described as “a life in which one set of actions, relationships, dealings, etc. are kept secret from most people”
Taken from Jan 2005 NY times article by Benedict Clay “psychologists say that most normal adults are well equipped to start a secret life, if not to sustain it. The ability to hold a secret is fundamental to healthy social development, they say, and the desire to sample other identities -- to reinvent oneself, to pretend -- can last well into adulthood. And in recent years researchers have found that some of the same psychological skills that help many people avoid mental distress can also put them at heightened risk for prolonging covert activities.” In the same article said Dr. Daniel M. Wegner, a professor of psychology at Harvard.” "In a very deep sense, you don't have a self unless you have a secret, and we all have moments throughout our lives when we feel we're losing ourselves in our social group, or work or marriage, and it feels good to grab for a secret, or some subterfuge, to reassert our identity as somebody apart,"
So join us today as your medical therapists in the mysterious The Something Perplexing Podcast, dives into Double Lives
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