People Are Terrified Of Other People Or

In Fact Most Of What We Call Anxiety Is Overconcern About What Someone Thinks Of You.

When I Started To Get Disillusioned With Psychoanalysis I Reread Philosophy And Was Reminded Of The Constructivist Notion That Epictetus Had Proposed 2,000 Years Ago: "people Are Disturbed Not By Events That Happen To Them, But By Their View Of Them." I Could See How That Applied To Many Of My Clients.

Acceptance Is Not Love. You Love A Person Because He Or She Has Lovable Traits, But You Accept Everybody Just Because They're Alive And Human.

Reality Is Not So Much What Happens To Us; Rather, It Is How We Think About Those Events That Create The Reality We Experience. In A Very Real Sense, This Means That We Each Create The Reality In Which We Live.

Thinking Rationally Is Often Different From "positive Thinking," In That It Is A Realistic Assessment Of The Situation, With A View Towards Rectifying The Problem If Possible.