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The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'
Sep 25, 2025
Our contention is not that medication alone is the answer. We really need to have it in conjunction with cognitive behavioral therapy and with peer support. And that needs to be reimbursed [by health insurers], because it shows huge reductions in overall spending.
Everybody has their reasons.
The depressed man lives in a depressed world.
We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Man is more powerful than matter.
Each of us does, in effect, strike a series of deals or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations.
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.
He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.
The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.
Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.
Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.
Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind.
You mainly feel the way you think.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.
Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen in you.
Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children.
We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.
Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.
His own character is the arbiter of every ones fortune.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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