Book: Do you want to talk about it?



I remember a famous cartoon. The hero seems to be a prisoner there, and he shakes the bars in a desperate attempt to get out - but there is no lattice to the right and left of him. He just needs to walk around. But he still desperately shakes the grate. And most people are like that. We feel trapped, trapped in these emotional cages, but there is always a way out - if we want to see it.
№ 449741   Added MegaMozg 06-02-2023 / 20:36
What makes psychotherapy a real challenge is that it forces people to look at themselves from a perspective they would normally choose to ignore. The therapist will bring you a mirror with maximum sympathy, but it is the patient who decides to peer into the reflection, to consider all the details with the words: Wow,
№ 449665   Added MegaMozg 06-02-2023 / 16:48
People want to understand and be understood, but for most of us the biggest problem is that we don't know what our problem is. We step on the same rake. Why do we do this particular thing that is guaranteed to make us miserable, over and over again?
№ 444726   Added MegaMozg 19-09-2022 / 23:24
People tend to dream without doing anything, as long as death remains something theoretical.
№ 439092   Added Viker 25-05-2022 / 20:31
But if we spend our present on restoring the past or trying to control the future, we will remain stuck in one place, in eternal regret.
№ 439091   Added Viker 25-05-2022 / 20:31
“There is a difference between pain and suffering,” says Wendell. - You feel pain. Everyone feels it from time to time, but you don't have to suffer that much. You don't choose pain, you choose suffering.
№ 439090   Added Viker 25-05-2022 / 20:31
I often say: “Before you say something, ask yourself what it will be like for the interlocutor?”
№ 439089   Added Viker 25-05-2022 / 20:31