10-11-2012, 01:47 AM
(10-10-2012, 07:47 PM)GentleReckoning Wrote: Ah yes.
Something important to me when I was initially breaking out of some severe depression was the removal of all absolutes in my self talk. (always, never, horrible, words that are on one end or another of the descriptive spectrum)
After that I stopped getting worse, and slowly began the process of getting better.
Good observation about the absolutes there, I tend to do that also. But as soon as one becomes aware of it, that is already the first step. And then, trying to remove or replace them with lesser absolutes