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Monday, June 06, 2011
following the other path

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Human beings have dozens of ways to increase their level of misery. One of these is regret. In essence, the person casts their mind back to a decision point at some time in the past, a moment when they could have chosen another path into the future, and made what seems to them to be the wrong choice.


The interesting thing about regret is how often the individual stuck with it seems to oscillate on the moment of the decision. “I could have said no, but I said yes.” But of course there are many moments that they could focus on: the time of the decision and all the moments since.


Read the rest of the blog piece on Psychology Salon


Randy Paterson, PhD is the author of Private Practice Made Simple: Everything You Need to Know to Set Up and Manage a Successful Mental Health Practice .

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