Posted by PsychoSage on March 20, 2004, at 14:17:21
In reply to Re: I've Made A Mess of My Life-SIMUS, posted by PsychoSage on March 20, 2004, at 14:11:03
Sorry, sometimes I just type and click and like to read what I wrote afterwards.
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However, Stuart Smalley from Saturday Night Live was the 80s. He had to make a big production out of making those positive affirmations because his negative thoughts were probably just too pervasive and crippling.*** Those affirmations alone though would NOT have changed his life. *** They could have set himself up to help change himself by lifting him from despair so he could think clearly, but they alone would have done nothing.
>> I'd hate to think that people would want to just say things out of habit to make me feel better without leading me to being more constructive about how I perceive myself. Sometimes those comforting words in effect give me another false sense of hope and expansion when sometimes I might need a more balanced conception about my own nature and what life is like when you carry a history if disappointment.
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> Good luck, Sandyweb!
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