Thanks for this interesting overview, vonmoxie. I certainly have plenty of negative self talk myself. So this may be helpful. I also find my negative self talk seems to be at its worst early in the morning. I suppose this may have something to do with serotonin levels or something of that sort. But also it probably has to do with the fact, when I get up in the morning, I always feel like I was run over by a herd of bison!