I'm up late trying to finish my reading for class tomorrow. Found a sentence that stuck out and popped me out of zombie-reading mode. Don't know if it is the choice of words or its message, but here it is.
To expect cures is irrational; to expect to impart wisom that, through experience, will fascilitate adjustment is sage.
Also interesting, the ratio of positive to negative thinking in normal individuals is 62:38. So normal is set at about 2:1. Depressed people have ratios of 1:1. To be optimistic more than 2:1 may also indicate unrealistic thinking.
[From Kendall, P.C. (2000), Child and Adolescent Therapy: Cognitive Behavioral Approaches, 2nd Edition, New York, NY, Guilford Press Chap 1 (pp. 3 – 27)]
3 comments:
Does swearing count positively or negatively? :P
all dependent upon inflection. do you swear for joy?
sh*t, I just ate some yummy strawberries!
man how do they measure people? stick a mic on different people and log their thoughts? pretty interesting stuff.
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