This Is Why You Always Feel Disappointed ft. Tarun Katial
EPISODE NOTES
People around you didn't meet your expectations. Your parents never quite got it. Your friends disappointed you. Sound familiar? Tarun Katial says there's a name for that feeling - and it's not depression. It's expectation mismanagement. We build these detailed pictures in our heads of how the people we love should show up. And when they don't - and they never fully do - we spiral. We blame them. We call it anxiety. We call it a broken relationship. But Tarun's point is quietly devastating: no one can ever live up to what you've imagined for them. That expectation exists only in your mind. You wrote the script. They never got the memo. The dysfunction that follows isn't on them. It starts with the story you told yourself. And the hardest part - you probably never even said any of it …