Posted by pinkeye on March 17, 2005, at 13:53:13
In reply to Yesterday Session, Today Anxiety, posted by Susan47 on March 17, 2005, at 13:41:33
It is really hard to feel safe just by ourselves - within us. I think the CBT therapists who teach that, do a mistake of asking too much of their patients. It is humanly impossible for anyone to feel an end in themselves, and feel completely secure and undisturbed.
What they should be teaching instead is, that we should feel safe enough in us so that, we will try to fill the need by what is available to us instead of what is not available to us. They should be telling us not to fill the need just by ourselves, but to seek to fill it with more plausible avenues. Like seek out other friends, other members of family, seek out God, establish a higher goal for ourselves, listen to good music, see inspiring movies, be there for the society, family etc.
It is wrong to ask of people to kind of be able to exist in vaccum and just by themselves.
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