Why write this blog

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It is a way of giving my other self, my unconscious and perhaps artistic self, a way of expressing itself, and thereby helping me working things out. It is somewhat cathartic in a positive way. :)

19 September, 2009

Why wallow Part 2

"One of the main objectives in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is to show the client that whenever unpleasant and unfortunate activating events occur in people's lives, they have a choice of making themselves feel healthily and self-helpingly sorry, disappointed, frustrated, and annoyed, or making themselves feel unhealthily and self-defeatingly horrified, terrified, panicked, depressed, self-hating, and self-pitying. By attaining and ingraining a more rational and self-constructive philosophy of themselves, others and the world, people often are more likely to behave and emote in more life-serving and adaptive ways."
source: Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_Emotive_Behavior_Therapy

I think I am, and through the use of this blog have been, one of the former. I chose to feel healthily and self-helpingly sorry, frustrated, angry and sad. The key word really is self-helpingly. What I defend is that you can be sad, and you can wallow in your own self-pity, but that you learn and use it as a tool to recover, grow and overcome.

There's nothing like being validated by a scientific theory and current medicinal practice. The REBT was developed by Albert Ellis, a psychologist who is generally considered to be one of the originators of the cognitive revolutionary paradigm shift in psychotherapy and the founder of cognitive-behavioral therapies. In a 1982 professional survey of U.S. and Canadian psychologists, he was ranked the second most influential psychotherapist in history, after Carl Rogers.

source: Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Ellis



1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Acho este post meio estranho!
Pela minha propria experiencia (que vale o que vale), sempre que passei por momentos dificeis, houve um momento de 'click'! O momento em que subitamente, ou talvez conscientemente, decidi que estar triste e deprimida não era para mim. Que independentemente da gravidade ou da seriedade do problema ou situação, o caminho tinha nessariamente de ser outro. Nunca consegui perceber a vantagem de wallow in self pity.... sadness doesn't became me...