Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.

So I'd better stop my whining and help myself cope better with even the worst Adversities.

If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.

I would like to be remembered as one of the individuals who founded, ideologically and practically, cognitive behavior therapy and who pioneered multimodal or integrated therapy.

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame. So it would have had more disadvantages than advantages for them.

Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.