Obviously you’ve put a lot of thinking and experimenting in it, congrats. Maybe so much so that (as you imagined) it’s a bit difficult, for me at least, to discuss the details of this method... However, from the general tone and exploration, I believe you’d really appreciate reading more about CBT. The version you’ve been told sounds immensely reductive and misses the point. A variant of CBT that I’ve found more approachable to begin with was ACT. There are accessible books for general audience such as The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris that provide a valuable introduction. The most interesting mention of ACT I’ve read on LW is : My attempt to explain Looking, insight meditation, and enlightenment in non-mysterious terms (but it’s quite advanced) Your thoughts also remind me of The Curse Of The Counterfactual
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Obviously you’ve put a lot of thinking and experimenting in it, congrats. Maybe so much so that (as you imagined) it’s a bit difficult, for me at least, to discuss the details of this method...
However, from the general tone and exploration, I believe you’d really appreciate reading more about CBT. The version you’ve been told sounds immensely reductive and misses the point.
A variant of CBT that I’ve found more approachable to begin with was ACT. There are accessible books for general audience such as The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris that provide a valuable introduction.
The most interesting mention of ACT I’ve read on LW is : My attempt to explain Looking, insight meditation, and enlightenment in non-mysterious terms (but it’s quite advanced)
Your thoughts also remind me of The Curse Of The Counterfactual
Cheers!