Great post, dg. Emotions drive us all over the place, especially if we belief that the thoughts that come to us when we're upset are absolutely true!

I think that we need to balance thinking and feeling, cognition and emotion, in order to maintain our well-being.

Ideas motivate us, and so do emotions. The combination of bad feelings and bad thoughts prevents adaptive reasoning, especially if we've never learned to deal effectively with them. Of course there are many ways to learn that, but some of us never have...

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