Depression Quote by Albert Ellis Download Open image “People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.” — Albert Ellis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Depression Inspirational People Perspective Upset
I am always surprised when people do get upset. Perhaps its just the nutty people who write to newspapers who get upset. — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all. — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
That's the thing about someone who rarely gets upset: when they do, you notice. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I don't really care if people get upset. I think I'm doing my job if people get upset; I want them to think! We… — Emma Caulfield Copy Share Image
Though few would admit it, most of the time, when people are upset they don't actually want to feel differently, they want agreement and… — Lee L Jampolsky Copy Share Image
When I'm upset, everyone knows about it, and it's a selfish trait because everyone suffers. — Tamara Ecclestone Copy Share Image
I just think this is people who are chronically looking for ways to be upset about things. — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
For me, being upset is different than being frustrated. Frustration, it's a little more deep inside. Being upset, you can get over it the… — Raphael Assuncao Copy Share Image
If you can do something about it, then why get upset? If you can't do anything about it, then why bother getting upset — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
“REBT’s Insight No. 1 holds that you have both healthy and unhealthy emotions” — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
So I'd better stop my whining and help myself cope better with even the worst Adversities. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
I'm one of the best-loved psychologists in the United States, but I'm also probably the most hated one. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
I'm very happy. I like my work and I like the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
“The concept of deservingness for one’s “sins” implies that certain acts are unquestionably under all conditions “sinful.” And this is impossible to prove.” — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
I teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic. People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. Self-esteem is… — Albert Ellis Copy Share
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
That is the real problem of depression - a condition which will affect an estimated one in five of the population at some point… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
Im tired, tired of putting more effort than you do. Im tired of always having to start the conversation and if I dont, you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, there was a naïve and innocent girl who thought she could tame the beast and live happily ever after. But the beast did not want to be tamed, for he was a beast and beasts care not for such things, and the girl died along with her dreams. From childhood's grave sprang a young woman, jaded… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share
“Why in depression" "If we are human, why not have the right to smile, Why in depression, young, and beautiful as earth, Why in… — Yanilsa pena Copy Share Image
“Shorter believes that psychosomatic illnesses (such as leg paralysis at the turn of the twentieth century or multiple personality disorder at the turn of the twenty-first) are examples of the unconscious mind attempting to speak in a language of emotional distress that will be understood in its time. People at a given moment in history in need of expressing their… — Ethan Watters Copy Share