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    Letting it go

    Does anyone have any good thoughts/ideas/CBT tricks for letting go of past events and actions? I'm forever mentally dredging up things that happened to me in the past (even things from 10 to 15 years ago!) and getting annoyed and depressed over them. Like today. I used to work for a small...
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    Off-topic: New Orleans and priorities

    In the midst of this incredibly destructive tragedy, one would assume that the first order of business would be to rescue people, to evacuate those trapped in the floods, to get the sick to hospitals for lifesaving care. Yet yesterday, the New Orleans Police Department was ordered to STOP...
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    People who put you down have their own faults

    Overhearing my "charming" coworkers is always instructive. People who like to think of themselves as smart, witty, enlightened, sophisticated, etc. can often be as ignorant, dismissive and gullible-- or more so!-- than the people they look down upon. One coworker was having yet another of her...
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