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Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

We Got It All Backwards

Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

Armstrong & Getty

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4.8815 Ratings

🗓️ 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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