You Largely Constructed Your Depression. It Wasn't

Rational Beliefs Bring Us Closer To Getting Good Results In The Real World.

The Emotionally Sound Person Should Be Able To Take Risks, To Ask Himself What He Really Would Like To Do In Life, And Then To Try To Do This, Even Though He Has To Risk Defeat Or Failure. He Should Be Adventurous (though Not Necessarily Foolhardy); Be Willing To Try Almost Anything Once, Just To See How He Likes It; And Look Forward To Some Breaks In His Usual Life Routines.

Is Self-esteem A Sickness? That's According To The Way You Define It. In The Usual Way It Is Defined By People And By Psychologists, I'd Say That It Is Probably The Greatest Emotional Disturbance Known To Man And Woman.

Beginning In The 1960s, Many Studies Showed That People Who Hold What We Call Irrational Beliefs Are Significantly More Disturbed Than When They Don't Hold Them, And The More Strongly They Hold Them, The More Disturbed They Tend To Be.

We Can Actually Put The Essence Of Neurosis In A Single Word: Blaming - Or Damning.