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September 2 - November 24, 2018
We wrote to relieve your suffering and empower you to lead a valued, meaningful, dignified human life. Psychological issues that you’ve previously struggled with may technically remain (or they may not), but what will it matter if they remain in a form that no longer interferes with you living your life to the fullest?
antidepressants are a ten-billion-dollar industry, even though their average impact on depression is only 20 percent better than a placebo, too small to be clinically significant (Kirsch et al. 2002).
ACT
specific techniques
to help you change your approach to your problems, and the direction in which your life has been going. These techniques fall into three broad categories: mindf...
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you learn to see your thoughts in a new way. Thoughts are like lenses through which we look at our world. We all have a tendency to cling to our particular lens and allow it to dictate how we interpret our experiences, even to the point of dictating who we think we are. If you are now stuck in the lens of your psychological pain, you may say things to yourself like, “I’m depressed.” In this book we will help you see the dangers of holding on to thoughts of that kind, and we will provide concrete methods to help you avoid those dangers.
Psychological pain has a history and, at least in that aspect, it is not a matter of getting rid of it. It is more a matter of how we deal with it and move forward.
“acceptance”
as a rule, trying to get rid of your pain only amplifies it, entangles you further in it, and transforms it into something traumatic. Meanwhile, living your ...
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We all carry painful hidden secrets. We tend to put on shiny, happy faces, pretending that everything is okay, and that life is “all good.” But it isn’t and it can’t be. To be human is to feel pain in ways that are orders of magnitude more pervasive than what the other creatures on planet Earth feel.
your life becomes narrower and narrower, less and less flexible.
