Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I tried cbt in therapy right before I quit teaching.

My therapist said that everything she listened to me gripe about was fundamentally true but I was very disproportionate about how I reacted to it. She also said I’m way above average at reading situations like with the same skills you use to navigate a difficult novel or text but I amplify the negative to very intense degrees. That’s why she was saying to make lists of positive things.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.