“I learned from the army it’s easier to tell people in offices what they want to hear because, if you don’t, there’s always someone higher up who wants you to fill out a longer form.” — Frank McCourt

If you define therapy as a tool to break malfunctioning patterns, then no. Some people will never ask themselves why they keep pissing into the wind. It’s not just about therapy. If you listen closely, you will hear many people boast about how they will never change.

No it’s not. The number one predictor of divorce is contempt to due to conflict that arises from differences in values that weren’t vetted for prior to marriage.

Daughter took an intro to psych class. She learned about Generalized Anxiety Disorder and its “gold standard” treatments: CBT and benzos. In twenty years of clinical work, I have never seen a case of GAD. I’m not saying it doesn’t exist. I’ve just never seen it. Here’s what I

Walter Williams doesn’t get enough love. The man was a folksy genius.

I keep shouting the same thing at my so-called friends.

Those of us who had no self-esteem recognized the self-esteem grift. From “The Tactical Guide to Women” on the topic of purpose:

Good question. Ironically, good questions occasionally lead to doctoral dissertations.

i think it you want to have a good marriage you should probably commit yourself to believing that your lover is not psychic and also deserves your respect at all times if you can do those two things, I bet your odds of success go through the roof

“Hello, fellow men. Shall we get jiggy with a carburetor?”

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You absolutely should go to bed mad when 85% of the problem is everyone is tired and cranky. DO NOT HASH IT OUT. STOP TALKING. A tedious unmarried therapist who can’t get a second date came up with that whole never go to bed angry line.

1/ We’ve learned a few things over the past ~125 years of treating mental/emotional difficulties. At the center of what we’ve learned is that telling people “exactly what your problem is” solves NOTHING Psychological illiteracy on social media has truly reached epic proportions

⢷ Oszillator ⡬ The book Gatekeeper by Shawn T. Smith is about this. He feels it necessary to explicitly tell men “you don’t have to be in a relationship that will make your life worse, you don’t need to be in a relationship at all just because a woman exists who wants you”