Nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so
Hi REBT Mates! Do you STILL think that it is things “out there” upset us??? Originally posted 2016-03-11 04:47:10.
Is keeping emotions “bottled up” dangerous?
In my callow and shallow youth, I used to subscribe to the “teapot model” of emotions. You know, our emotional systems are like teapots with water boiling, generating steam and pressure. If the steam does not have an outlet, or the outlet becomes overwhelmed by too much steam expanding too quickly . . . POW !!! Explosion […]
More “expliding teapot theory”
Sometimes people try to find ways to express their anger in a less dangerous way…. Originally posted 2013-05-03 19:26:38.
TRIGGER WARNING!
TRIGGER WARNING! Sorry to be the one to tell you; people, places and things “out there” do not trigger you. You trigger yourself by your distorted interpretations of the trigger. Of course, to understand that, you first need to understand something about REBT-CBT. Originally posted 2017-10-28 17:04:18.