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One Thing I Still Don’t Understand…

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  1. thanks for this dr. john! i will definitely be subscribing!

  2. Is there any difference between psychological problem and psychological disorder? So many thing we don’t understand about our self until we accept our self, but it is too late. Thanks Dr. Grohol for this blog.

  3. I always thought that great–healthy-confident minds are not afraid to show their own humanly “nagging” problems. Reading everything on that link I had the opportunity to tell to myself that I am not loosing my minds if it happened to answer with what was on my mind and not “on subject” or I hardly express myself! I am using English as a second language and mostly in the last 8 years.
    Therefore I am still puzzled of NAGGING about …“remain optimistic about being optimistic” (wonder how you can deal with such a LOGIC!) and “positive-thinking” when nagging “about being well on track” with weight problems! (“Some theorists, like my friend Roy Baumeister, believe that self-control is a general trait. (…)I am well on track to my goal. So self-control is for me highly domain specific. For you?) Maybe he is nagging about me!
    We all write sometimes without thinking and I understand that it’s better not to get over anxious about; I really appreciate when someone at least is talking, writing something,telling “his mind” I have to force myself! Meanwhile I will not consider myself crazy getting lost in thinking funny things (richard-wiseman-wit) like matching that “optimistic” with “positive thinking”!  Thanks to John M Grohol for another valuable insight and encouragement!

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