Written by : Aakriti Agrawal
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. The line perfectly explains the psychological theory called Double Bind. It is a situation in which you feel like whatever you decide, you will be wrong. It is something which most of us have experienced at least once in our lives. It is basically a no-win situation.
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Examples of such situations can be when a student wants to go abroad to expand his or her learning opportunities but, at the same time they do not want to leave their family and friends behind and move to a completely unknown country. This is an example of a no-win situation because whichever path they decide to go on, they will lose something or the other. Another example can be when a person wants to lose weight but, can not leave fattening products.
Gregory Bateson and his colleagues believed that the double bind or no-win situation was a contributing factor in schizophrenia. It is a disorder that affects a person’s ability to think, feel and behave clearly. They proposed that contradictions in the interaction between family members predisposes it’s members to schizophrenia. But, later on the theory was discarded for the lack of convincing support.
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People have now come up with many ways to deal with a double bind situation. Such a situation can make you feel angry, helpless, trapped or even depressed. So, one of the first steps to deal with a situation like this is to take a few steps back and analyze the problem. You can talk to a close friend or even write it down step by step. In either of these cases you tend to find a loophole in the situation which can take you out of it. If you can’t then think of other ways to deal with it like believe in yourself that you can come up with a better solution and walk away, take help from others or from sites that deal in such problems, choose situation that makes you feel better and benefits you the most.
In the end, just believe that no situation is permanent and every problem has some or the other solution to it. Everything gets sorted at the end of the day and you can be happy again.
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