[ DISCLAIMER ]   In a blogpost entitled Reasoning With the Unreasonable , I succinctly stated that “people are not  their beliefs .” For context, the American Psychological Association (APA) thusly defines  belief:   1. acceptance  of the truth, reality , or validity of something (e.g., a phenomenon, a person’s veracity), particularly in the absence of substantiation.   2. an association of some characteristic or attribute, usually evaluative in nature, with an attitude ob

[ DISCLAIMER ]   My primary job in the United States (U.S.) Marine Corps was military police , as my secondary billet was as a Marine Security Guard  (MSG). Regarding the latter (above photo), I was ignorant  about how my diplomatic mission supported the Central Intelligence Agency  (CIA).   Nevertheless, when guarding the U.S. embassy in Lima, Peru , I became disillusioned when realizing that my military service supported CIA activities and wasn’t an honorable matter. That’s

[ DISCLAIMER ]   Personal Anecdote   The above photo is of me—the left: taken during seventh or eighth grade, and the right: taken during adulthood. When living in the Southwest Cottage of a children’s home in both seventh and eighth grade, I was placed in a residential setting due to financial insupportability.   While there, I began intimate partner relationships with two girls who lived in the coed cottage. If memory serves, girl X was in my grade and girl Y was one grade

[ DISCLAIMER ]   When listening to an episode  of the DarkHorse Podcast  in which   biologist Bret Weinstein  interviewed attorney Aaron Siri , it occurred to me that some people with whom I’ve practiced Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy  (REBT) may benefit from the message, as Weinstein stated:   What you’re describing is foregone conclusions. Right? They [pharmaceutical companies] make a product, it is presumed safe and effective, and then scientific  work is done to justif

[ DISCLAIMER ]   To provide a psychoeducational lesson on my approach to Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy  (REBT), I find it useful to illustrate how the scripts which we tell ourselves are constructed (made or formed by combining or arranging parts or elements; set in logical order). First, it may be worthwhile to distinguish between thoughts and beliefs. A “thought” is an individual act or product of thinking . A “belief” is a state or habit of mind in which trust or

[DISCLAIMER] I sat in a patient room while waiting to be seen by my primary care provider (PCP). Behind me was a wall containing...

[DISCLAIMER] I once took apart an iPhone in order to replace a faulty battery. Because I wasn’t skilled at the task, it was an onerous...