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• matching. If you have been programmed to hate yourself as a child you are going to ignore your strengths and ‘look for’ evidence of ‘worthlessness’; this is simply confirmatory bias – we seek proof of what we have already been conditioned to believe. This is also known as the ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’. Or what I prefer to call ‘future pace pattern...
• There is no such thing as a ‘neurotic’, no such thing as a ‘nervous person’ no more than there is no such thing as a ‘drug addict’
• reifications of complex verbs – things we do, often just for a while when life is going a bit shitty, as it does for everyone.
• Anxiety is caused and ‘cured’ by specific things in the real world.
• For anxiety is caused by human suffering.