We Got It All Backwards
Armstrong & Getty One More Thing
Armstrong & Getty
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🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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What happens when you spend all of your time thinking about your problems?
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, I think we've got it all backwards. |
| 0:01.7 | It's one more thing. |
| 0:03.5 | Armstrong and Getty. |
| 0:04.8 | One more thing. |
| 0:09.8 | I don't know if we've ever just played a clip of another podcast on our podcast. |
| 0:14.5 | Seems a little weird. |
| 0:15.3 | But I came across this. |
| 0:16.2 | It was floating around social media. |
| 0:18.3 | This author, Abigail Schreier, who's written a bunch of different things, got a lot of attention. |
| 0:23.8 | But anyway, this particular aspect, given my dislike of most therapy and my experiences with therapy, |
| 0:35.0 | both for me and my family and my kids and the many thousands of dollars spent and how little good it did if not more harm I thought was really really interesting so this is from the Joe Rogan podcast with an author who's written a book about this sort of thing I never really considered that until your book until I heard the title of your book and I read the synopsis of it, I never really |
| 0:55.2 | considered it. I never considered that thinking about your problems all the time and talking |
| 1:01.2 | about your problems all the time literally make the problems grow. That's right. I mean, |
| 1:06.1 | it's the number one symptom of depression is what they call rumination, this pathological obsessing over your pain. |
| 1:13.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.1 | That's why stuff like exercise, that's one of the reasons, aside from chemical reasons, |
| 1:18.1 | one of the reasons that doing anything, you know that running errands is good for your mental |
| 1:22.2 | health, getting out of your house and accomplishing anything is good for you. |
| 1:27.3 | But sitting around talking and thinking about |
| 1:29.1 | your problems, that's a bad habit. And the best cognitive behavioral therapists and others, |
| 1:34.2 | you know, the dialectical behavioral therapists, the ones who do really well with depression, |
| 1:38.2 | the first thing they do is try to break that on that bad pattern. But a lot of therapists just |
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