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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression

Clean Pain, Dirty Pain

ByPaul Brennan RPsych March 14, 2016April 4, 2016

Clean Pain, Dirty Pain Nobody likes pain. It makes sense that we make every attempt to avoid it or make it go away. But why do some of us seem to have less of it than others? It may be helpful to sort our pain into two types: clean pain and dirty pain. It seems…

Anger Management

Looking “at” your thoughts not “from” your thoughts

ByPaul Brennan RPsych February 12, 2016April 5, 2016

Many of us struggle with thoughts that are difficult, painful, unhelpful or just annoying. Part of the problem is that these thoughts tend to follow us around: Even if we go to Mexico, our painful thoughts will probably come along for the ride. Of course there are many distractions that we can use to…