Mental Filters

By William Keith Leavitt

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Posted: May 2, 2019

Thinking errors are plentiful in the human condition and they lead us into patterns of behavior that cause us emotional pain and in some cases can be quite debilitating. As shown previously in this blog Mental Filters can skew reality. They are like a pair...

Shoulds and Shouldy Thinking...

By William Keith Leavitt

Entertainment Industry Psychotherapy

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Posted: March 5, 2018

Shoulds Shoulds are a list of inflexible rules that we have regarding a subject. Largely it’s about how people “should act” and behave. This type of thinking, when directed at others, usually results in us judging them negatively, finding fault, and if verbalized, making them...