Sure am glad we're allowed to write stupid stuff.. though I'm not sure who is, or how to, catogorize anything.

Perhaps there are millions of people living day to day with their own irrational beliefs and aren't having terrible problems (in their ignorance maybe?) But to consider someone who is in therapy because things in their life, their own responses to those events, etc.. well it just isn't all working. That's when it's time to challenge all of thinking... and ferret out those that are irrational.

Since, say, we are the ones in therapy, and hiring someone to give us a different perspective, what does it harm us to change what is considered "irrational?" CBT and RET are not "brainwashing" therefore, a change in thinking is our choice, and once made, can be changed back if it's decided those beliefs were not truly "irrational."

I would like your comments if they were slightly shorter. I'm having trouble reading and comprehending in this state of depression. This is a discussion I'm missing and don't want to!

TC ((witt))