Focus on the things we can control, which are our thoughts and our actions. It’s a Stoic philosophy of a certain mindset and lifestyle that we could acquire.

I think within this level of control, we interpret outside ourselves most times within our lives and our relationships with ourselves, and mostly other people. We tend to spend more energy on certain aspects of a controlling nature towards what’s around us and other people, rather than to practice within our thoughts and without our actions levels of self-focused awareness and discipline.

Let’s take a common example to show how control can be misrepresented or misinterpreted, that’s for sure been expressed and experienced by many people many times, that has a sense of feeling attached to it. But it’s also important to understand how unhealthy this can be for our mental health, and for those who are the receivers of such focused control.

The example, of course, is about relationships. This will be directed more towards a relationship we have with our significant other, but I’m sure any type of relationship we have with anyone else would have experienced similar types of the same things as well.

Control: Focusing too much elsewhere

Besides certain individuals with insecurities that create these nonsensical “broken bits,” call it fears, past traumas, and so on.It’s interesting to see this type of downward spiral of such a person being encapsulated within their own personal beliefs of external-focused control. Especially when assumptions start to build up into a type of delusional reality where it creates accusations toward or against someone who you’re involved with leading down these...