25/02/2022
The beauty of Albert Ellis's 13 irrational beliefs on which his Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (originally Rational Emotive Therapy) is based is masterpiece of Irony. Due respect to Albert Ellis Sir for his great work. And all laws, theorems, theories, etc ultimately do find an exception. But within the accepted measures and parameters of rationality, the constant efforts for being within those measures is in itself a prelude to create irrationality.
This is not just a therapy, if one realises the irrational belief number 14 that I have written, is the ironical crown of thornes that one wears in order to be a king. It's an important lesson in life. It's like pursuit of happiness seldom ends in happiness and realisation that pursuit is the very cause of whatever is opposite of happiness. Representing a thought process based on rationality as a correct thought process to be utilised by patients of depression for dealing with troubling, distressful thoughts, has a judgemental tinge to the process of determining rational vs irrational. If this dichotomous thinking is not realised then it creates a pursuit of the rational which ends in an irony. Especially when human mind uses rationalisation as a defence mechanism.
