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.
Originally posted 2019-12-18 10:54:17.
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 […]
Do you STILL think that events cause your emotions??? Neuroscience says “No!” Originally posted 2018-01-05 20:32:19.
Accentuate the Rational, Eliminate the Woo-woo Redux
Accentuate the Rational, Eliminate the Woo-woo Redux The Shocking Truth About “Positive Thinking” by Rex Alexander (with some help from Perplexity)Wed 2 Jul 2025 Dear readers, thank you for joining me on this journey. This article still needs some work, but it is an important and timely update to and expansion of my original article from […]