Sunday, April 29, 2007
How are we feeling today? Darren's Response
Dear Mom,
This is just like what David Burns writes. Your emotions depend not on the world around you, but how you think about the world around you. Changing your thinking can change your mood even when the situation doesn’t change. However, if something to make you mad or sad has legitimately happened, then there is no need to try to change your thinking, because it isn’t distorted! Same with guilt. If you didn’t do anything wrong, change your feeling so that you don’t feel guilty, but if you did do something bad, the guilt is legit and you don’t need to change your thinking.
Darren
This is just like what David Burns writes. Your emotions depend not on the world around you, but how you think about the world around you. Changing your thinking can change your mood even when the situation doesn’t change. However, if something to make you mad or sad has legitimately happened, then there is no need to try to change your thinking, because it isn’t distorted! Same with guilt. If you didn’t do anything wrong, change your feeling so that you don’t feel guilty, but if you did do something bad, the guilt is legit and you don’t need to change your thinking.
Darren
