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Yet sometimes things are black and white.
by retrocryptid 3y ago
Yet sometimes things are black and white.
- staticman2 3y ago"Yet sometimes things are black and white." Have you had this fact checked by a cognitive therapist? They are, apparently, the arbiters of reality.
- klyrs 3y agoAs a mathematician, I can assure you that some things are definitively black and white. The transferrability of mathematics to "real life" is questionable, of course. Axiomatic systems can only describe so much.
- staticman2 3y agoYou might be suffering from a cognitive distortion, my good mathematician, I suggest you check with a cognitive therapist. I'm kidding, of course, the joke being that whatever anyone says to me will result in a dismissal that only a cognitive therapist can know for sure what's real and what isn't, since they are the self declared experts on whether thoughts match reality.
- retrocryptid 3y agoMethinks thou doeth protest too much.
- staticman2 3y ago>Methinks thou doeth protest too much. I love this argument. It was championed by Freud, I believe, and goes like this: "When I say something and someone responds, there are two possibilities: 1) They agree with me, which shows I am correct! or 2) They disagree with me, which means they are in denial, which proves I am correct!"
- thefurdrake 3y ago> since they are the self declared experts on whether thoughts match reality. [citation needed]
- staticman2 3y ago> [citation needed] Are you sure about that? You may be suffering from a cognitive distortion. I suggest you make an appointment with a qualified therapist.
- thefurdrake 3y agoNo, it's pretty common practice to provide support for extraordinary claims. It's actually a normal behavior-- people usually don't respond with gaslighting, but given the level of other responses you've provided, this fits.
- staticman2 3y agoAm I gaslighting you and making extraordinary claims or are you catastrophising, making a selective abstraction, personalizing, magnifying, making an arbitray inference, overgeneralising, filtering, blaming, global labeling, discounting the positive, mental filtering, or jumping to conclusions? I recommend checking with a therapist and finding out.
- thefurdrake 3y agoYikes.
- salawat 3y agoI have a better idea. Get this book series. https://www.amazon.com/Structure-Magic-Vol-Language-Therapy/dp/0831400447 https://www.amazon.com/Structure-Magic-Vol-Language-Therapy/... One of the best reads I've ever done, and for the saavy mathematician/programmer who has a knack for deconstructing mental constructs via linguistic analysis, it'll equip you to be able to do better at handling your own woes, or at least being able to keep tabs on someone you decide you trust enough to allow them to engage in some neuro-linguistic programming. YMMV. Therapists have their uses. But to get the most out of them, you have to spreckin' the lingo. Then again, if you already can, you're more than half way there.
- DrNosferatu 3y agoHi staticman2, have you been mistreated by a (CBT) therapist? Allow me to constructively suggest you read up on Negative Countertransference: [1] The importance of spreading information about what good therapy feels like, and what should not happen in therapy cannot be stressed enough. [1] https://www.simplypsychology.org/countertransference.html#:~:text=therapist%2Dclient%20relationship.-,Negative,or%20disapproving%20of%20the%20client https://www.simplypsychology.org/countertransference.html#:~....