Topic
CBT
10 articles
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Stoic Therapy: Does It Work — and Is It a Real Therapy?
Stoic therapy is a real mental discipline — but not a substitute for a therapist. Where it helps, and where it stops.
June 6, 2026
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What Catastrophizing Actually Means — and Why Your Brain Does It
Catastrophizing is your mind treating the worst-case story as the likely one. Here's the mechanism — and the ancient practice that inverts it.
May 24, 2026
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Cognitive Distortions: What Beck's List Actually Describes
The list names what your mind does. It doesn't explain why knowing the name doesn't stop it. That explanation predates Beck by two thousand years.
May 19, 2026
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Emotional Regulation Techniques — What They're Actually Doing
Every emotional regulation technique targets the same thing. Here's the mechanism — and the Stoic who described it first.
May 18, 2026
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Stoicism and Depression — Not the Way Most People Think
Stoicism gestures at exactly the right thing. Then stops working at the exact moment the weight gets heaviest. Here's an honest account of why.
May 15, 2026
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CBT Techniques for Emotional Regulation — Why They Work
CBT techniques for emotional regulation work. Almost no one explains the mechanism. Here's the Stoic origin that makes them legible.
May 13, 2026
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Why Thinking Patterns Are Hard to Change — What Fixes It
You know the technique. You've tried it. It still doesn't work under pressure. The problem isn't effort — it's that nobody explained what you're actually doing.
May 13, 2026
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Socratic Questioning: The Ancient Self-Examination Practice
CBT teaches Socratic questioning as a clinical technique. What it left out is the part Socrates considered essential: the questions were always directed inward first.
May 10, 2026
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The First Flash of Anger Wasn't Yours — Seneca on De Ira
The flash of anger that arrives before you've decided anything — Seneca said that wasn't yours. He mapped three stages in De Ira. CBT found the same structure 1,900 years later.
May 9, 2026
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Albert Ellis Built CBT from Epictetus — How It Happened
Cognitive behavioural therapy is the most rigorously tested psychological treatment in existence — and Albert Ellis built it from Epictetus.
May 5, 2026