•1 To solve a problem, first deal with your problem about the problem.
•2 To solve a problem, first deal with how poorly you treat the problem.
•3 To solve a problem, first deal with correcting your approach to the problem.
•4 To solve a problem, first deal with your problematic reactions and relationship to the problem.
•5 Your problem with your problem makes your problem worse by: adding to it, resorting to blaming and damning instead of problem-solving, resorting to anxiety or depression instead of coping, trying to change its reality, trying to control its reality, trying to deny or suppress it, or other ineffective methods that merely serve to continue and increase the problem from the outside.