would learn to face our problems instead of flee them. Find out what's wrong and do something about it.
"It isn't good to be too well adjusted. The people in the cemeteries are all well adjusted. Youre not orazy
if you talk to yourself...only if you listen. What is normal or abnormal is only a matter of extent and degree. It is normal to be depressed occasionally. It is abnormal to stay that way. It is normal to laugh. They take you away if you continue laughing too long."
Dr. Banks offered the following points as a basis for knowing how to live with yourself:
1.
Are you happy? Seek happiness directly and it will never be yours.
2. Zest for living.
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4.
Are you socially well-adjusted? Dɔ you like people? Can you see the other fellow's point of view?
Do you have unity and balance? Don't wrap your life around one thing. This is like building a house on one pillar. If the pillar goes, the house goes.
5. Most of the worry that goes on is about things which never happen or about things done that cannot be undone.
6. Seek insight into your own conduct.
7. Have a confidential relationship with someone.
8.
Cultivate a sense of the ridiculous...at yourself. "Laughter is the sunshine of the soul". It is chemically impossible to laugh and be angry (have ulcers) at the same time.
9.
Are you engaged in satisfying work?
The person
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