•1 First, we try to know an emotional or mental disturbance by thinking about it: thought cannot know anything.
•2 Second, we try to fix that emotional or mental disturbance by thinking about it: thought cannot do anything.
•3 Third, we try to know by thinking about it why our fixing the disturbance is not working: thought cannot know anything.
•4 Fourth, we try to fix the problem with our fixing the disturbance by thinking about it: thought cannot do anything.
•5 Fifth, after repeated failures, we disguise, reframe, repress, or suppress all of the previous steps to cover, hide, or rationalize our failures to know, change, and control with thinking.