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CONTENTS ORGANIZED BY CHAPTER


Begin

  • Title
    • Subtitle
    • Copyright
    • Copying Myself
    • International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
  • Dedication
  • Description
  • 10 Approaches to Happiness

Planet Earth

  • Introduction to Report
  • Background on Planet Earth
  • 5 Types of Insanity or Insane Thinking
    • Table: 5 Types of Insanity or Faulty Beliefs

Ego Insanity

  • Ego & Self-Esteem Terms
    • Table: 15 Terms Related to Ego
    • Self As Container
      • Diagram: Model of the Human Self
    • Deadly Positive Self-Esteem
  • 1. Identity As the Known
    • 2. Identity As Good & Bad Doings
    • 3. Self As Bad for Knowing Bad
    • 4. Self As Bad for Experiencing Bad
    • 5. Self As Bad for Doing Bad
    • 6. Self As Bad for Having Bad
  • 7. Identity As Things & Thoughts
    • 25 Disputes of Self-Esteem
    • 8. Identity As Others’ Opinions
    • 9. Self As the Thought of Everything Or Oneness
    • Table: 5 Reasons Buddha Was Wrong
    • 10. Self As Stupid for Not Knowing
  • 11. Identity As Behaviors & Habits
    • 12. Self As Memories of Behaviors
    • 13. Self As Habits
    • 14. Self As Being & Doing Good
    • 15. Self As Mistakes
    • 16. Identity As Shoulda-, Woulda- & Coulda-Beens
    • 17. Identity As Good & Bad Has-Beens
    • 18. Identity As Future Should-, Would- & Could-Bes
    • 19. Abject Failure Is the Only Wrong
    • 20. Because I Must; Therefore, I Must Not
    • 21. Blame Being, Not Thinking
  • 22. Self As Becoming & Progress
    • 23. Bark Like a Dog, Become a Dog
    • 24. Become Bad for Feeling Bad
    • 25. Self Can Become Something Else
    • 26. Self Can Change
    • 27. Self Changes Automatically
    • 28. Become the Object of Your Desire
      • Table: 6 Steps to Becoming a Delusion
  • 29. Self Can Be Superior
    • 30. Ego Comfort Is More Important than Existence
    • 31. Memory Is Subservient to Pride
    • 32. Keeping Appearances Is Keeping Integrity
    • 33. Two Wrongs Make One Right
      • Basic Premise of the Error
      • Table: 4 Beliefs Underlying the Error
      • Criminal Logic
    • 34. Self-Esteem Justifies Extremism
    • 35. High Self-Esteem Leads to Good
    • 36. Apotheosis & High Self-Esteem

Thought-Thing Insanity

  • 37. Thoughts Are Reality
    • 38. You Can Know
      • Table: 15 Facts Prevent Knowing
      • Table: 6 Steps to Having a Thought
    • 39. Thought Knows
    • 40. Thoughts Are What They Describe
    • 41. Thought-Things Are Reality
    • 42. The Thought Is the Thing
    • 43. Sentimentalism Is Reality
    • 44. Deifying & Idolizing Are Reality
      • Table: 7 Rules About What Idols Are
    • 45. Sensations of Thoughts Are Sensations of Reality
    • 46. This Means That
    • 47. Mentation Equals Perception
    • 48. Believing Is Seeing
    • 49. Knowledge Comes from Experience
    • 50. Everything Means One Thing
    • 51. Everything Is Relative
  • 52. Thoughts Are Energy
    • 53. Thoughts Create Reality
      • Table: 7 Rational Observations
      • 11 Illogical Claims
    • 54. Thoughts Cause Reality
    • 55. Thoughts Change Reality
    • 56. Nature Exists
  • 57. Thoughts Are Alive
    • 58. Thought Chooses
    • 59. Thought Changes
    • 60. Thought Does or Performs
    • 61. Thought Moves
    • 62. Thought Is Alive
    • 63. Words Have Meaning
    • 64. Words Are the Destination
    • 65. Words Are Experience
    • 66. Words Are Worth Killing Over
      • Table: 6 Parts of Human Confusion
  • 67. Thought Is Being
    • 68. Knowledge of Self Is Self
    • 69. You Create Your Thoughts
    • 70. Self Is Feelings
    • 71. Identification Excuses Enmeshment
    • 72. Another Human Can Teach Me about Myself
    • 73. Externalized Conscience

Irresponsibility Insanity

  • 74. Victim of Feelings
    • 75. Feelings Build Up & Need Release
    • 76. Feelings Are Caused by People & Events
    • 77. Negative Environments Cause Negative Feelings
    • 78. Being Annoyed Is Horrible
    • 79. Can’t Stand What You Don’t Like
    • 80. Voodoo Emotions Are Real
    • 81. Victim of Emotions
  • 82. Victim of Mind & Body
    • 83. Mind Is Controlled by Chemicals, Genes & Society
    • 84. Victim of Mind
    • 85. Mind Is Controlled by Life
    • 86. Destiny Is Controlled by Aliens
    • 87. People & Things “Get to” You
    • 88. “It” Controls Me
    • 89. Events Make Me Sick
    • 90. Blame Game Must Be Won
    • 91. If My Body Is Disturbed, Then I’m Disturbed
    • 92. You Cannot Control Your Feelings
    • 93. Releasing Feelings Is Curative
    • 94. Food Causes Feelings
  • 95. Victims Cannot Do Wrong
    • 96. Whining Works Wonders
    • 97. Demonizing Is Responding, Not Making Worse
    • 98. Self-Torture Produces High Self-Esteem
    • 99. Torturing Others Produces High Self-esteem
    • 100. Hurt Convicts Offender
    • 101. Hurt Proves Others’ Intentions
      • Table: 6 Parts or Steps of Victimhood
    • 102. Responsible If Feel Good
    • 103. Avoid & Escape Whenever Possible
    • 104. Victims Aren’t Responsible for Anything
    • 105. I Must Act Out My Stress

Absurdity Insanity

  • 106. Backward Logic
    • 107. You’ll Be Good After You Feel Bad Enough
    • 108. Convince Bad So Become Good
    • 109. To Be Good, Be Evil
    • 110. Making Others Bad Is Being Good
    • 111. Treat Them Badly Enough, & They’ll Treat You Well
    • 112. Prove They Hate You, & They’ll Love You
    • 113. Motivate People with Ego Pain
      • Table: 6 Responses to Negative Motivation
    • 114. Screaming & Crying Motivate People
    • 115. Break Brains to Control Brains
      • Table: 6 Phrase Starters for Double-Binds
      • 2 Double-Bind Proofs of Incompetence
    • 116. Suppress & Damn Evil to Make Evil Good
    • 117. Demonizing Self & Others Solves Problems
    • 118. Revenge Is More Important than Recovery
    • 119. Make Better by Making Worse
    • 120. You Can Change Others But Not Yourself
    • 121. Give Wants for Receiving Don’t Wants
    • 122. Only Thought Can Determine Reality
  • 123. Senseless Reasoning
    • 124. Don’t Challenge or Frustrate Children
    • 125. Punish Children by Ending Productive Activities
    • 126. Threatening Is Parenting
    • 127. Anger Is Parenting
    • 128. Slobism
    • 129. Hitler Was Unusual
      • Table: 4 Criteria for “Worst Country”
    • 130. Pray for People, Not the Good
    • 131. Universe Made Out of Nothing for Nothing
    • 132. Universe Created by Destruction
    • 133. People Evolved from Primitive Forms
    • 134. Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle Applies to All
    • 135. Matter Controls, Creates, & Is Over Energy
    • 136. Knowledge of the Parts Is Knowledge of the Whole
    • 137. Value Human Thought Over Human Senses
    • 138. Things Change
    • 139. Accidents Happen
    • 140. Luck Exists
    • 141. Hierarchy Is Fascist
    • 142. Partnerships Are Proper
    • 143. Wise to Say Whatever You Think
    • 144. I Know What You Mean
    • 145. Other People’s Behavior Is About You
    • 146. People Are Unique
    • 147. What You See in Others Isn’t in You
    • 148. Darkness Is Better Than Light
    • 149. Hate Others to Be Better
    • 150. Destroy Pleasure to Control Temptation
    • 151. We Must Punish & Control the Bad
    • 152. If It’s Bad, Then I Must Make It Worse
    • 153. Ignore It & It’ll Go Away
    • 154. Avoidance & Escapism Work
    • 155. Resist Facing & Flee Unwanted Thoughts
    • 156. Resist While Running
    • 157. Choose Based on Pain, Not Joy1
    • 158. Humans Are Motivated by Pleasure
    • 159. Hate Your Work
    • 160. Hate Is Always Wrong
    • 161. Demandingness Works
    • 162. Demanding Solves Problems
    • 163. Awfulizing Solves Problems
    • 164. Worry Solves & Prevents Problems
    • 165. Positive Requires Negative
  • 166. Senseless Beliefs
    • 167. God Does Not Exist (Atheism)
      • 43 Disputes of Atheism
    • 168. Evolution Is a Fact
    • 169. Earth Was Not Flooded
    • 170. Science Is Rational & Objective
    • 171. Scientists Are Smarter than God
    • 172. Humans Are Modern & Advanced
    • 173. God Has Human Limitations
    • 174. God Needs Humans
    • 175. God Is in Debt to Humans
    • 176. Humans Deserve Better
    • 177. Humans Have Rights
    • 178. First Things Last
    • 179. ESP Does Not Exist
    • 180. Think Weakly to Be Balanced
      • Table: 9 Rules about Thinking Strongly
    • 181. Have Pride in Confusion & Philosophy
    • 182. Ego Rewards Are Better than Joy in God
    • 183. The Body Is the Self
      • Table: 10 Questions Prove Body Is Not Self
    • 184. Body Is Teacher
    • 185. Appearances Are Reality
    • 186. The Messenger Is the Message
    • 187. Genocide Is the Answer
    • 188. Time to Do Over, Not Right
    • 189. Time to Fix It Only When It Takes a Lot
    • 190. Investment Is Commitment Or Loyalty
    • 191. Failure Is Success
    • 192. Death Is Life
    • 193. Teach What to Think, Not How to Think
    • 194. You Are What You Ate
    • 195. You Are What You Think
    • 196. Life Can Be Fair
    • 197. Life Can Be Solved by Politics

Partiality Insanity

  • 198. Desire Madness
    • 199. Victims Have the Right to Act Like Perpetrators
      • Invention of Palestinians for Propaganda War
      • Hamas War Crimes
      • Palestinians Are the Only Excuse Needed to…
    • 200. Anger Needs to Be Felt & Can Cause Good
    • 201. Naming Feelings Cures Feelings
    • 202. Alcoholism Is Not a Moral Failing
    • 203. Create a Profession through Complication
    • 204. Example Only Affects when Not on TV
    • 205. Thinking Evil Is Okay If You Don’t Act on It
    • 206. Damning & Demonizing Create Good
    • 207. That You Can Damn It Proves It’s Damnable
    • 208. Gossip Is Good
    • 209. Character Defects Only Apply to Others
    • 210. Assume the Worst About Others, Not Self
    • 211. Strangers Are Nicer Than Family
    • 212. If They Love Me, then They’re a Loser
    • 213. Beauty Is Truth
    • 214. Mystery Is Truth
    • 215. Anything Is Truth
    • 216. Reframing Is Truth
    • 217. Synthesis Is Truth
    • 218. Whining Is Truth
    • 219. Everything Has a Reason but Life
    • 220. Probability Means Possibility
    • 221. Must Make Reality What It Should Be
    • 222. Should Be Immediately Able to Do Anything
    • 223. Control Other, Not Self
    • 224. Must Act Bad Not to Look Bad
    • 225. Can’t Stand Myself, But You Must
    • 226. I Must, But I Cannot
    • 227. I Must, But I Didn’t
    • 228. I Must, But I Won’t
    • 229. Purpose of Life Is Success
    • 230. Purpose of Life Is Relationships
    • 231. Purpose of Life Is Covetousness
    • 232. Tongue Must Rule the Mind
    • 233. Physical Pleasure Rules Over Mind
    • 234. Contents More Important than Container
    • 235. Because Bad Happens, God Cannot Exist
    • 236. Trust in Humans, Not God
    • 237. Trust in Thought, Not Spirit
    • 238. Seek Human Praise, Not God’s
    • 239. Seek Human Judgment, Not God’s
    • 240. Live for Humans, Not God
    • 241. Self-love Is the Highest Good
    • 242. Notice Any Loss But Loss of Self
    • 243. Living Death Is Preferable to Life
    • 244. Knowing Better Is Better than Happiness
    • 245. Get Yourself Coming & Going
    • 246. Masochism & Sadism Are Good
  • Religious Madness
    • 247. We Can Do the Good
    • 248. We Know the Good
    • 249. Bad Are the Good
    • 250. The Good Do Bad
    • 251. Good Do Not Have to Do Good
    • 252. You Can Be of God & Sin
    • 253. Spiritual Pride Is the Best Pride
    • 254. Spiritual Pleasure Is Pride
    • 255. Pride Is the Answer
    • 256. Profit Is God
    • 257. Pride Is God
    • 258. Addiction to Pride Is Good
    • 259. Golden Rule Doesn’t Work
    • 260. Do Not Fear God
    • 261. God Has No Limits
    • 262. God Will Forgive Everyone Everything
    • 263. Faith Is Belief
    • 264. All Religions Are the Same

Thinking Errors

  • 9 Fundamental Thinking Errors
    • 1. Claims to Know
    • 2. Claims to Do
    • 3. Claims to Be
    • 4. Thought-Thing Realities
    • 5. Claims of Powers Or Abilities
    • 6. Becoming Or Evolving
    • 7. Trying to Know, Do, Or Be
    • 8. Rating People
    • 9. Pride Or Self-Confidence
  • 5 Types of Thinking Errors
    • Table: 5 Types of Thinking Errors
  • Type 1: Ego Thinking Errors
    • 1. Acting a Role
    • 2. Assumption that “I” Is Self
    • 3. Attachment to Thoughts
    • 4. Attachment over Detachment
    • 5. Avoidance of Ego
    • 6. Believing that You Know, Do, Or Be
    • 7. Constant Chattering
    • 8. Deifying Or Idolizing
    • 9. Defining Self As Behavior
    • 10. Demonizing Or Damning
    • 11. Denial
    • 12. Destructive Guilt
    • 13. Disqualifying the Positive
    • 14. External Attributions
    • 15. Grandiosity
    • 16. Hearting Or Owning
    • 17. Ideas of Reference
    • 18. Mask Wearing
    • 19. Mind Reading
    • 20. Other-Ratings
    • 21. Over Sensitivity
    • 22. Persecuting Or Punishing
    • 23. Personalizing
    • 24. Projection
    • 25. Reframing Or Rationalizing
    • 26. Repression
    • 27. Self As Urges
    • 28. Self-Esteem
    • 29. Self-Ratings
    • 30. Shame
    • 31. Subjective Memory
    • 32. Substituting
    • 33. Thought-Selves
    • 34. Upward Comparing
  • Type 2: Thought-Thing Thinking Errors
    • 35. All-Or-Nothing
    • 36. Catastrophizing
    • 37. Categorical Imperatives
    • 38. Cause & Effect Dogmatism
    • 39. Either/Or
    • 40. Extreme Jumping
    • 41. Extremism
    • 42. General Attributions
    • 43. Good Fit
    • 44. Habitual
    • 45. Identifying
    • 46. Intensionalizing
    • 47. Judging Your Being
    • 48. Jumping-to-Conclusions
    • 49. Labeling
    • 50. Magnification
    • 51. Memories As Reality
    • 52. Mindset
    • 53. Minimizing
    • 54. Need for Certainty
    • 55. Negative Bias
    • 56. Non Sequiturs
    • 57. One-Way-Or-the-Other
    • 58. Overgeneralizing
    • 59. Part As Whole
    • 60. Perfectionism
    • 61. Pigeonholing
    • 62. Preferential Selection
    • 63. Prejudging
    • 64. Selective Abstraction
    • 65. Selective Attention
    • 66. Selective Memory
    • 67. Selective Perception
    • 68. Shoulding
    • 69. Stable Attributions
    • 70. Subject-Predicate Thinking
    • 71. Thought As Responsible
    • 72. Thought Attributions
    • 73. Thought-Things
    • 74. Too Much Or Too Little
  • Type 3: Irresponsibility Thinking Errors
    • 75. Anticipating Threat
    • 76. Arbitrary Conclusions
    • 77. Arbitrary Interpretation
    • 78. Authoritarian
    • 79. Authoritarianism
    • 80. Blaming
    • 81. Boundary Blurring
    • 82. Can’t-ing
    • 83. Control by Thought
    • 84. Controlling Outcomes
    • 85. Conventionalism
    • 86. Dramatic Proof
    • 87. Emotional Blaming
    • 88. Emotional Reasoning
    • 89. Escapism
    • 90. Excessive Doubting
    • 91. External Locus of Control
    • 92. External Referenting
    • 93. Frozen Feelings
    • 94. Historical Reasoning
    • 95. Indecisiveness
    • 96. Immediate Gratification
    • 97. Instantaneity
    • 98. Low Frustration Tolerance (LFT)
    • 99. Low Frustration Tolerance (LFT-2)
    • 100. Minding
    • 101. Oversimplifying
    • 102. Pain Proves Intent
    • 103. Past Prisoner
    • 104. Playing Hopeless
    • 105. Postponing
    • 106. Reacting Instead of Choosing
    • 107. Ruminating
    • 108. Short-Sighted
    • 109. Suggestible
    • 110. Super Vulnerability
    • 111. Uncertainty in Decision Making
    • 112. Uncritical Acceptance of Criticism
    • 113. Unduly Sensitive
    • 114. Whining
    • 115. Whining (2)
    • 116. Wishful Thinking
  • Type 4: Absurdity Thinking Errors
    • 117. Alwaysing
    • 118. Accept & Control
    • 119. Awfulizing
    • 120. Flee & Control
    • 121. Flee & Resist
    • 122. Resist & Control
    • 123. Resist & Flee
    • 124. Believing Thoughts Know, Do, Or Be
    • 125. Correlation As Cause
    • 126. Demanding
    • 127. Discounting Compliments
    • 128. Displacement
    • 129. Expectations
    • 130. Fortunetelling
    • 131. Ideas of Reference Always False
    • 132. Introjecting
    • 133. Jealousy
    • 134. Kick Me
    • 135. Learned Helplessness
    • 136. Messenger As Message
    • 137. Must Hedge
    • 138. Negative Forecasting
    • 139. Never-ing
    • 140. Over Concern for Detail
    • 141. Overcautious
    • 142. Paralysis by Analysis
    • 143. Past As Present Or Future
    • 144. Piggybacking
    • 145. Procrastinating
    • 146. Reading Into
    • 147. Thinking Feeling
    • 148. Thought Over Heart
    • 149. Trying
    • 150. Unlikely Inference
    • 151. Worrying
  • Type 5: Partiality Thinking Errors
    • 152. Action by Attention
    • 153. Awfulizing (2)
    • 154. Belief Reasoning
    • 155. Biased Script Testing
    • 156. Cognitive Avoidance
    • 157. Cognitive Bias
    • 158. Cognitive Dogmatizing
    • 159. Conditional Self-Acceptance
    • 160. Conditioning Blaming
    • 161. Covering Or Suppressing
    • 162. Dependency on Conflict
    • 163. Desiring
    • 164. Error Persecuting
    • 165. False Contrast
    • 166. Feeling Avoidance
    • 167. Guessing
    • 168. High Sounding Or Specious Reasoning
    • 169. Ignoring the Context
    • 170. Mental Editing
    • 171. Mental Filtering
    • 172. Motive Judging
    • 173. Over-Responsibility
    • 174. People Pleasing
    • 175. Pessimism
    • 176. Rationalizing
    • 177. Revenge
    • 178. Special Causes
    • 179. Superstition
    • 180. Superstitious
    • 181. Systematically Biased
    • 182. Truth Must Not Be Offensive
    • 183. Unacceptance of Reality
    • 184. Political Correctness
  • Thinking Errors to Infinity

Self-Esteem Proved False

  • California Study on Self-Esteem
  • Partial Catalogue of Self-Esteem Beliefs
  • 20 Wacky Self-Esteem Beliefs
  • 50 Self-Esteem Disputes
  • 75 Self-Esteem Disputes
  • 12 Long Self-Esteem Disputes
    • 1. Self-Esteem Feelings Cause What?
      • Self-Esteem Pleasure Destroys
      • Self-Esteem Guilt Destroys
    • 2. Self-Esteem Results in What?
      • Self-Esteem Results in Poor Choices
      • Self-Esteem Results in Hate
      • Table: 6 Lies of Ego Hate
      • Table: 6 Lies of Ego Hate (2)
      • Self-Esteem Isolates
    • 3. Where Is Self-Esteem Going?
      • Can You Be Behaviors?
    • 4. Does Self-Esteem Effect Health?
      • Self-Esteem Causes Stress
    • 5. Does Self-Esteem Effect Morals?
      • Can Your Self Ever Be Known?
      • Can You Be Thoughts?
      • Can You Be Memories?
      • Can You Be Self-Constructs?
      • Can You be Thought-Things?
    • 6. Does Self-Esteem Prevent Problems?
      • Self-Esteem Is the Problem
    • 7. What Function Does Self-Esteem Serve?
      • Is Self-Rating Needed?
      • Is Rating Your Self Sensible?
      • Self-Esteem Kills
    • 8. What Does Self-Esteem Predict?
      • What Are the Consequences of Self-Esteem?
    • 9. What Does Self-Esteem Infer?
      • Self-Esteem Teaches Self-Defeat
    • 10. What Does Self-Esteem Accomplish?
      • Self-Esteem Is a Waste
    • 11. What Is the Logic of Self-Esteem?
      • Self-Esteem Is a False System of Measurement
      • Can Accurate Tests Exist for Self-Esteem?
      • Can You Be Traits?
      • Can You Be Based on Thought?
      • Can Self-Ratings Be Proved?
    • 12. Can Another’s Self-Esteem Effect You?
      • Self-Esteem Leads to Genocide

Supplements

  • Critical Thinking Skills
    • Principles of Critical Thinking
    • Skills of Critical Thinking
  • Not All Humans Are Or Were Insane
    • Table: 5 Reasons Lao Tzu Was Right
  • Mental-Court Games
    • Diagram: 6 Roles of Mental-Court Games
    • Mental-Court Games
  • 12 Levels of Human Existence
    • Diagram: 12 Levels of Human Existence
  • Nots & General Semantics
  • Sacred Scientism
  • Scientism Quotations
    • Various Sources
    • Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
    • The Bible
  • Evolution Exposed
    • Evolution Is Dead by Design
    • 70 General Arguments Against Evolution
    • 26 Fossil Arguments Against Evolution
    • 8 Breeding Arguments Against Evolution
    • 27 Mutation Arguments Against Evolution
    • 26 Natural Selection Arguments Against Evolution
  • Schooling in Stupidity
  • Quotations for Not Schooling in Stupidity
  • Suggested Readings to Counter Schooling
    • Perils of Parental Punishment
    • Punishment Does Not Teach
    • Punishment Does Not Suppress in Other Situations
    • Punishment Is Generalized to Other Behaviors
    • Punishment Is Arbitrary
    • Punishment Is Not Always Punishing
    • Punishment Is Associated with the Punisher
    • Punishment Is Reinforcing to the Punisher
  • 30 Arguments for the Elimination of Prisons
    • Why are there Criminals?
  • Us Versus Them
    • Help
  • The Politics of Politics
    • 7 Systems Govern Human Life
    • Table: 7 Human Systems
  • Effects of Deifying & Demonizing
    • Table: Deifying & Demonizing Affect Feelings
    • Table: Deifying & Demonizing Affect Thinking
    • Table: Deifying & Demonizing Affect Behaving
    • Table: Deifying & Demonizing Affect Relationships
  • Consequences of Blaming & Damning
  • Adler’s 4 Priorities & Self-Esteem
    • Pleasing
    • Comfort
    • Superiority
    • Control
    • Table: 4 Priorities About Superiority
  • Freud’s Defense Mechanisms & Self-Esteem
    • 1. Compensation
    • 2. Denial
    • 3. Displacement
    • 4. Identification
    • 5. Introjection
    • 6. Projection
    • 7. Rationalization
    • 8. Reaction Formation
    • 9. Regression
    • 10. Repression
    • 11. Ritual & Undoing
    • 12. Sublimation
  • Beck’s 7 Thinking Errors & Self-Esteem
    • 1. Self-Esteem Is Closed-minded
    • 2. Self-Esteem Is Discrediting
    • 3. Self-Esteem Is Dramatizing
    • 4. Self-Esteem Is Jumping to Conclusions
    • 5. Self-Esteem Is One-Way-Or-The-Other
    • 6. Self-Esteem Is Overgeneralizing
    • 7. Self-Esteem Is Personalizing
  • REBT’s 10 Irrational Beliefs
    • 1. Irrational Belief
    • 2. Irrational Belief
    • 3. Irrational Belief
    • 4. Irrational Belief
    • 5. Irrational Belief
    • 6. Irrational Belief
    • 7. Irrational Belief
    • 8. Irrational Belief
    • 9. Irrational Belief
    • 10. Irrational Belief
  • REBT Is the Deepest Therapy: 10 Reasons
    • 7 Philosophical Reasons
    • 2 Counseling Practice Reasons
    • Emotional Realism Makes REBT Deeper
      • Table: Healthy vs. Unhealthy Feelings
  • Suggested Internet Websites

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  • Read and discover how CBT, REBT, & Stoicism evolved into one system: STPHFR.

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Breathe Your Mind


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  • Read and discover how CBT, REBT, & Stoicism evolved into one system. Planet Earth: Insane Asylum

STIFFER Stoic Mind


  • Read and discover the world’s best breathing exercise for your feelings and stress. Planet Earth: Insane Asylum

Breathe Your Mind


  • Read for the best and most complete understanding of how thinking keeps the world insane. Planet Earth: Insane Asylum

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