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Of Course: Choosing Indifference Over Disappointment

By The STRESS Doc

November 15, 2022

This post is a work in progress like many topics and themes I tackle using my evolving application of REBT and Stoic thought to life questions and quandaries. Where our heart is set Disappointment isn’t a clinical entity so it doesn’t enjoy diagnostic status in the DSM-5 manual of psychiatric…

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