"I think there are families that are very kind and supportive of people's ability to change. People who come from such families may go through life without dipping into the dark night."

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People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. They always have the power to think, and to think about their thinking, and to think about thinking about their thinking, which the goddamn dolphin, as far as we know, can't do. Therefore they have much greater ability to change themselves than any other animal has, and I hope that REBT teaches them how to do it.

— Albert Ellis