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 […]
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At the bottom of every post is a form to share your thoughts, opinions, ideas, ask questions or seek advice. Please use it. We LOVE hearing from YOU! Originally posted 2017-07-14 06:31:10.
Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World. ~Rex Originally posted 2019-06-28 17:55:59.
Raymond A. DiGiuseppe, Ph.D., ABPP, Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Institutional Review Board, has studied anger as a clinical problem and has promoted the recognition of anger as a form of psychopathology . . . Originally posted 2019-03-03 17:41:23.
Learn more about hypnosis and how it relates to REBT-CBT . . . Originally posted 2019-05-09 20:43:44.
Thought as Sensation When we encounter the word “sensation,” I guess most of us immediately think of physical or tactile sensations such as, heat, cold, pressure, tingling, pain, etc. However, the application of the definition is much broader than that. It can and does describe various mental processes that arise from an external stimulation of a sense […]
Originally posted 2019-03-14 20:12:41.