Fleabag is incredible, mature yet immature, brilliant and funny. You'll laugh. You might cry. You'll definitely have a deep discussion.

What do you do when something hurts too much to face directly? Make a joke? Stay busy? Intellectualise it? Have sex, pick a fight, scroll your phone... or convince yourself you’re completely fine? And does being intelligent actually make this easier? The smarter we are, the more sophisticated our ways of avoiding emotional pain can become: we can explain it, analyse it, laugh at it and build an extremely convincing argument for why we don’t need to feel it at all. But is that necessarily unhealthy? Sometimes hiding from pain helps us survive. The more interesting question may be when does protection become avoidance—and how can we tell the difference?

Join Daria, a psychological counsellor and Gestalt therapist, to watch selected scenes from an episode of Fleabag and explore what they reveal about the wonderfully complicated ways human beings protect themselves. Fleabag is hilarious, painfully intelligent and genuinely groundbreaking television, able to make you laugh at a character’s behaviour one moment and suddenly understand the hurt underneath it the next. Daria will use the scenes as starting points for an interactive, judgement-free conversation about humour, distraction, intimacy, self-awareness and the clever stories we tell ourselves to keep difficult feelings at a safe distance. You don’t need to have seen Fleabag or know anything about psychology... just come ready to watch, laugh, think and perhaps recognize a little bit of yourself along the way.

《伦敦生活》这部剧特别棒——成熟又幼稚，聪明又好笑。你会笑，可能会哭，肯定会有一场深刻的讨论。

当某件事痛到没法直接面对时，你会怎么做？开个玩笑？让自己忙起来？用理性去分析它？约炮、找架吵、刷手机……还是说服自己“我完全没事”？那聪明会不会反而让这件事更容易？我们越聪明，逃避情绪痛苦的方式就越高级：我们可以解释它、分析它、嘲笑它，还能构建一套极其有说服力的论证，说明自己根本不需要去感受它。但这就一定不健康吗？有时候，躲开痛苦确实能帮我们撑下去。更有意思的问题可能是：什么时候保护变成了回避——我们又该怎么分辨这两者？

加入Daria——一位心理咨询师兼格式塔治疗师——一起看《伦敦生活》某一集的精选片段，探索它们揭示了人类保护自己的方式有多奇妙又复杂。《伦敦生活》好笑、聪明到扎心，而且是真正开创性的电视剧，能让你前一秒还在笑角色的行为，下一秒突然就懂了那背后的伤。Daria会把这些片段当作起点，展开一场互动、无评判的对话，聊幽默、分心、亲密、自我觉察，以及我们为了把难处理的情绪挡在安全距离之外而给自己讲的那些精巧故事。你不需要看过《伦敦生活》，也不需要任何心理学知识……只要准备好来看、来笑、来思考，也许顺便在过程中认出一点点自己。