The Internal Multiple Personality Disorder.
"Living an examined life is just one insult after another, you have to maintain a sense of humour.
Your mind has absolutely no shame, it will think anything.
The person you meet when you look in the mirror is not one person.
It is a congress of selves, and many of them are total assholes.
And ultimately you can't take it personally you didn't create yourself, or your culture, or your consciousness.
You find yourself here in this circumstance, and the question is: what can you do next; what is possible given the kind of mind you have?
Morally, psychologically and existentially we have a navigation problem, and there are tools we can put in-hand to be a much wiser and happier pilot." ~ Sam Harris
This describes a kind of Internal Multiple Personality Disorder which we all feel.
A selection of Avengers assemble inside of us, except more than 50% of them are villains.
The best versions of us so often seem to be drowned out by the judgemental, harsh, emotional, juvenile voices which cause us to behave and think in a way that aren't in our interests.
Your moment to moment experience of the world is largely determined by the story you tell yourself about it.
And if our narrator happens to be a total dick most of the time, is it any surprise that we struggle to find happiness?
Sam summarises it nicely.
"Wisdom is a matter of making your mind your friend"
Honestly, how can any of us truly say we are wise if our mind is out of control?
If you're so smart, and so wise, then why aren't you happy?