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Re: cognitive therapy - the ultimate downer? » hffcookie

Posted by pinkeye on February 24, 2005, at 15:37:24

In reply to cognitive therapy - the ultimate downer?, posted by hffcookie on February 24, 2005, at 11:42:52

Are you confusing "having expectations" in life and working for things? Therapists only stress reduced expectations - actually not even reduced expectations, only kind of meaningful expecations out of yourself and others and life.

IT does not mean, you should be working only for that, or have only that much in your life. By all means, if you have something extraordinarily good, that is fine. But getting depressed because you don't have something extremely perfect and worrying about it is what is wrong.

It has been one of the basic premises of religions for a long time - do your duty without expecting rewards. And it works.


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