With love, for all of you Gloomy Gus, Swede Bashers, and Nattering Nabobs of Negativity . . . Originally posted 2019-06-05 20:35:40.
Steven C. Hayes is the developer of ACT Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, author of 44 books and nearly 600 scientific articles, his career has focused on the understanding and alleviation of human suffering . . . Originally posted 2019-04-15 03:27:30.
If you can sit quietly . . .
If you can sit quietly after difficult news . . . Originally posted 2019-01-31 07:34:48.
Albert Ellis, founder of REBT and one of the most influential psychotherapist s in history Originally posted 2019-04-08 06:21:26.
THE MACHINE STOPS by E.M. Forster (1909) Anybody who uses the Internet would do well to read E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops. Written in 1909, it is a chilling, short story masterpiece about the role of technology in our lives. Amazingly prescient about the internet, e-mail, phones that project visual images, and social media addiction, […]
Depression following benzodiazepine withdrawal
Mick wrote: I cannot help but feel that my life has been ruined by this withdrawal process. 10 months out and I am in another wave. I have so much brain fog its unreal, as well as many, many many other debilitating symptoms. I lost the person whom I thought that I would marry […]
I used to be somebody… I used to be a contender … Click to find out why Rex is off paper books Originally posted 2019-07-25 05:08:02.
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People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.” ~Albert Ellis Originally posted 2019-09-10 23:05:13.
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 […]