These are the 5 things people regret the most before dying, according to psychiatrist Enrique Rojas

Healthy lifestyle habits can save us time and quality in our lives, but do we really know why we want them? The only thing human beings can be sure of is that Life ends for everyone on a certain day, after more or less years. Knowing how we want to live it is the big question each of us must face. Fortunately, we have the help of people who have already lived and who have left their thoughts so that we can mature our own response.

In this sense, the famous psychiatrist Enrique Rojas participated in a program of the the five aspects that people regret the most in life. Come on, “when a person is on their deathbed with a boarding pass because they have an illness that can no longer be treated,” Rojas says. Even though everyone has their personal reasons for living, the expert points out that many agree on a short list of regrets.

According to this expert, the first regret is that of having worked too much. Work can be a source of motivation in certain cases, but living focused on this aspect this inevitably forces us to sacrifice our free time. Time that we can spend with our families and friends or even cultivating a hobby that simply makes us happy to do it. In fact, discovering a purpose in life beyond work is an aspect linked to better health in old age.

Live with purpose

“The aging process is very long and begins when we are young. By that I mean that It must be throughout life when we dedicate ourselves to the pursuit of these interests and goals.. “Se ve clearly when a person is jubila, no one who wants to do anything more and is locked up at some point”, explained Andrés Losada, vice-president of Gerontology at the Sociedad Española de Geriatría y Gerontología (SEGG) in this article from EL ESPAÑOL. Japanese culture is understood as ikigai, what does it mean and that they consider it to be decisive for health.

The second most common apprehension in the death sentence is “it has an excessive importance for things that really don’t exist,” Rojas explained. Something he himself called . Learn to give value to each event in our life It is closely linked to the quality and prevention of problems in our mental health. In this article from EL ESPAÑOL, Pilar López voice of the Sociedad Española de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental supports that to the consultations of Psiquiatría llegan many cases that do not llegan ser trastornos.

“It’s a problem that has always existed. Patients come to consultation dissatisfied with their lives,

The fourth regret, according to Rojas, is “not having done in life what I wanted, but rather what others wanted me to do, my family, my parents, the environment…”. This is also the regret of Bronnie Ware, an Australian palliative care nurse who wrote the book (either The five regrets of those who diein English), highlights as the most frequent of all. “

and they never become what they had the capacity to become.

The last of the regrets reported by psychiatrist Enrique Rojas is “not having been able to find answers to life’s big questions.” Con esto, Rojas refers to . These are the great questions of his, tal and like expression, a misterio and según the expert can be encountered sentido or consuelo en cultivar una spiritualidad o, as well, in ejorcitar la reflexión philosófica.