Last time I (hopefully) explained a couple of things. One: avoiding emotions is bad for us. Two: not avoiding them is tremendously difficult. This poses a wee problem. One thing which can help deal with this wee problem is the fact that emotions are social critters. Simply put, emotions happen (mostly) in relation to other…
In one of my dubious attempts to join the 21st century, I’ve been listening to a podcast. In it, psychiatrist Dr. Jeffery Smith makes a bold assertion: all problems which bring people into psychotherapy stem from affect avoidance. Loosely translated (very loosely, I’ll admit) this means emotions are our friends, and dodging them causes problems.…
Note: Conventional wisdom (aka my wife, who knows much more about blogging than I do) says that blog posts should be no longer than 500 words. This one is double that, and then some. My apologies; I just don’t want to split this one in two. Hopefully it is interesting enough to make it worth…