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Intuitionism Versus Using the Tools of Referenting or Cost-Benefit Analysis
[DISCLAIMER] On producer DK’s album Atlantic Rap, Vol. 1 (2023) is the song “Intuition”, featuring lyricists Aida, UFO Fev, Wais P, Mic Picasso, and Ras Kass. On the track, Aida states, “I’m not the type of person that gives up and plays victim. I might be in my feelings in private, but I evict them.” This line regards part of my approach to personal and professional care for mental, emotional, and behavioral health (collectively “mental health”). Thus, herein, I’ll provi
Deric Hollings
60 minutes ago21 min read
Personal vs. Collective Ownership of Reactions: Have You Enjoyed Yourselves?
[DISCLAIMER] U.S. Elections Each United States (U.S.) general and midterm election season offers ample opportunity for me to sharpen my personal and professional practice of care for mental, emotional, and behavioral health (collectively “mental health”). Thus, I typically draft blog content regarding elections. As today (11/3/2026) is Election Day, a designated time for midterm elections in the U.S., I’ll share my points of view concerning how people often make matters
Deric Hollings
2 days ago26 min read
Self-Victimization: The Contradiction of Schrödinger’s Feminist – Perpetual Victims
[DISCLAIMER] As Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) was formed by the late psychologist Albert Ellis, who reportedly developed the first cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) psychotherapeutic modality in 1955, this blog entry is part of an ongoing series regarding his book, Ask Albert Ellis?: Straight Answers and Sound Advice from America’s Best-Known Psychologist. Regarding my professional care for mental, emotional, and behavioral health (collectively “mental health”),
Deric Hollings
4 days ago18 min read
Age of Majority: 18 and 19-Year-Old Adults Have Agency and Can Exercise Personal Ownership
[DISCLAIMER] When serving in the United States (U.S.) Marine Corps, as a Marine Security Guard (MSG) in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, I was introduced to the sister of a Marine’s girlfriend—to whom I’ll refer as “Mousey.” I was 21-years-old at the time and Mousey had recently turned 18-years-old. Noteworthy, in both the U.S. and Brasil, a person aged 18 is within the age of majority (the age defining legal adulthood, as at majority, a minor becomes an adult, assuming legal cont
Deric Hollings
Oct 2912 min read
Schrödinger’s Consent and a Trauma Response: Consent-Based Morality
[DISCLAIMER] Schrödinger’s Cat Although I began the informal practice of life coaching in 1991, I didn’t become a psychotherapist until 2011. Prior to entering the field of professional care for mental, emotional, and behavioral health (collectively “mental health”), I served as a Protective Forces member. Specifically, when subcontracted to the United States (U.S.) Department of Energy, working at Pantex in the field of nuclear weapons security (2004-2008), I maintaine
Deric Hollings
Oct 2625 min read
Every X Is a Worthless Thing That I Can’t Stand, Is Awful, and Shouldn’t Exist
[DISCLAIMER] I view many events through the proverbial lens of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). Herein, I’ll provide a psychoeducational lesson that involves thinking and believing which is rational (in accordance with both logic and reason), or not (i.e., irrational), as it regards REBT. Here, “logic” is the interrelation or sequence of facts or events when seen as inevitable or predictable, and “reason” is a statement offered in explanation or justification. Fo
Deric Hollings
Oct 2210 min read
Unrealistic, Illogical, and Self-Defeating Beliefs and Behavior
[DISCLAIMER] When serving in the United States (U.S.) Marine Corps (1996-2007), as a sergeant (E-5), I met a female Marine (E-3) who told me that she was divorced from her male Marine husband (E-3). As it turned out, she was physically separated and going through a divorce, not actually divorced. Senior enlisted and officer personnel within my command ordered me not to maintain contact with the woman until her divorce was finalized (e.g., formal reprimand). Fellow junior-en
Deric Hollings
Oct 1715 min read
Emotional Appeals and Social Contagion
[DISCLAIMER] I view many events through the proverbial lens of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), as I’ll provide a psychoeducational lesson that involves thinking and believing which is rational (in accordance with both logic and reason), or not (i.e., irrational), as it regards REBT herein. Here, “logic” is the interrelation or sequence of facts or events when seen as inevitable or predictable, and “reason” is a statement offered in explanation or justification.
Deric Hollings
Oct 613 min read
Between a Cock and a Hard Place: It’s All Men Until It’s No Men
[DISCLAIMER] All Men I occasionally write about my lived experienced pertaining to graduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work (SSW), regarding the University of Texas (UT) at Austin (2012-2014). For example, I stated in Woke: These Bitches Are Crazy!: I was told that all males (i.e., boys and men) were oppressors, maintained privileges not afforded to females (i.e., girls and women), and that members of my sex (i.e., male) and gender (i.
Deric Hollings
Oct 425 min read
Startle Response and Instinct: Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
[DISCLAIMER] Earlier this morning, when checking my mailbox while the sky was still dark, I observed the behavior of an armadillo, of the nine-banded variety. Because the placental mammal is nocturnal by nature, it likely didn’t anticipate or expect me to be out and about while it strolled around. The creature probably had poor hearing, as my knees and ankles make the sound of crackling firewood when I walk. Thus, the armadillo didn’t hear me approaching, as I apparently
Deric Hollings
Sep 1716 min read
Bayesian Reasoning
[DISCLAIMER] Logic and Reason I view many events through the proverbial lens of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), as I’ll provide a psychoeducational lesson that involves thinking and believing which is rational (in accordance with both logic and reason), or not (i.e., irrational), as it regards REBT herein. Here, “logic” is the interrelation or sequence of facts or events when seen as inevitable or predictable, and “reason” is a statement offered in explanation
Deric Hollings
Sep 1115 min read
Guilt Trip: A Self-Conscious Emotional Ride
[DISCLAIMER] I view many events through the proverbial lens of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). Herein, I’ll provide a psychoeducational lesson that involves thinking and believing which is rational (in accordance with both logic and reason), or not (i.e., irrational), as it regards REBT. Here, “logic” is the interrelation or sequence of facts or events when seen as inevitable or predictable, and “reason” is a statement offered in explanation or justification. Fo
Deric Hollings
Sep 615 min read
The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves: About a Paradox and Giving Up
[DISCLAIMER] When enlisted in the United States Marine Corps (1996-2007), assigned to Marine Corps Base Quantico when undergoing Marine Security Guard training (1999), I saw a Marine wearing a t-shirt with the phrase The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves. According to one source, the etiology of this phrase is inconclusive. Additionally, another source states of the expression: Wikipedia explains the well-known slogan like this: ‘The beatings will continue
Deric Hollings
Sep 211 min read
Intellect: Practitioners of Prediction, Not Prophecy
[DISCLAIMER] The American Psychological Association (APA) defines intellect as “the intellectual functions of the mind considered collectively” and “an individual’s capacity for abstract, objective reasoning, especially as contrasted with their capacity for feeling, imagining, or acting.” For clarity, the APA also defines intellectual function as “any of the mental functions involved in acquiring, developing, and relating ideas, concepts, and hypotheses. Memory, imaginati
Deric Hollings
Jul 116 min read
Unfathomable
[DISCLAIMER] On the EP entitled Requiem for a Nightmare (2025), by lyricist Eclyse and producer Forge One, is the song “Unfathomable” in which Elyse states, “What can’t be fathomed, traveled lightyears with a telescope. To see the past, yo, we can’t imagine even a fraction.” Thereby, he addresses the term unfathomable (not capable of being fathomed). Here, fathomable regards that which is capable of being comprehended. Importantly, fathom merely means to penetrate and com
Deric Hollings
Jul 88 min read
Summertime Is the Killing Season
[DISCLAIMER] When providing psychoeducational lessons on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), I teach people about the ABC model of self-disturbance (how people upset themselves through use of irrational beliefs). Now, I’ll address a finer point of this psychotherapeutic model of wellness. For context, REBT uses the ABC model to illustrate how when an undesirable Action occurs and you Believe an unhelpful narrative about the event, it’s your unfavorable assumption, n
Deric Hollings
Jul 813 min read
It’s Not an Opinion, It’s a Fact: Am I Taking Crazy Pills?
[DISCLAIMER] When providing care for mental, emotional, and behavioral health (collectively “mental health”), I’m sometimes reminded of an Internet mere regarding the antiquated term crazy (not mentally sound: marked by thought or action that lacks reason). Specifically, one source states: Zoolander is a 2001 comedy film [written and directed by,] and starring Ben Stiller. In it[,] he plays Derek Zoolander, an American male model brainwashed to kill the Prime Minister of
Deric Hollings
Jul 612 min read
Conditional Reasoning: Unconditionally Accepting What Is
[DISCLAIMER] Logic and Reason I view many events through the proverbial lens of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). Herein, I’ll provide a psychoeducational lesson that involves thinking and believing which is rational (in accordance with both logic and reason), or not (i.e., irrational), as it regards REBT. Here, “logic” is the interrelation or sequence of facts or events when seen as inevitable or predictable, and “reason” is a statement offered in explanation o
Deric Hollings
Jun 2714 min read
If We Could Be Love, Then We Must Be Love
[DISCLAIMER] I view many events through the proverbial lens of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). Herein, I’ll provide a psychoeducational lesson that involves thinking and believing which is rational (in accordance with both logic and reason), or not (i.e., irrational), as it regards REBT. Here, “logic” is the interrelation or sequence of facts or events when seen as inevitable or predictable, and “reason” is a statement offered in explanation or justification. Fo
Deric Hollings
Jun 99 min read
The Logic Is Correct: Yuh, I Felt That One in My Nuggets!
[DISCLAIMER] I recently listened to conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson interviewing German banking and development economist Richard Werner. Even if you don’t typically appreciate Carlson or his perspective, I invite you to consider that Werner stated when discussing bankers: Mathematics is logic, and the logic is correct. And here’s the trick, here’s the great deception. We like logic. Men like logic. People like logic. Logic is convincing to us, and so co
Deric Hollings
May 256 min read
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