My purpose is to present original, creative and helpful psychotherapeutic ideas. While "pessimistic" may seem a provocative or self-sabotaging quality, it is actually a facet of optimism. Just as a physician would harm a patient by ignoring injury, and helps the best by facing the worst, so must a therapist know that we grow from roots bent by psychic injuries in our past. Optimism must be based in this reality, not in wishful thinking. "Abandon all conventional fluff, ye who enter here."
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[social_warfare] Dysthymia is a kind or quality of depression that masquerades in many individuals as a fairly decent life, generally speaking. Dysthymic, you ...
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