• Self-talk talks about you as if you were not there.
• Self-talk talks about you as if you are not listening.
• Self-talk talks about you as if you were a piece of furniture in the room of your mind.
• Self-talk talks about you as if you were a computer variable to be manipulated; rather, than as a living being to be valued.
• Self-talk talks about you as if you were a shell of a person or a holding spot for self-concepts and self-images that was not worth talking directly to.