This quote has the potential to cure ALL irrational thought (ocd, depression, etc)

[SageModeAustin]

 

It is quite possible to overcome infantile suggestions of the unconscious, and even to change the contents of the unconscious, by employing the right kind of technique.  Whenever you begin to feel remorse for an act which your reason tells you is not wicked, examine the causes of your feelings of remorse, and convince yourself in detail of their absurdity.  Let your conscious belief be so vivid and emphatic that they make an impression upon your unconscious strong enough to cope with the impressions made by your nurse or your mother when you were an infant.  Do not be content with an alternation between moments of rationality and moments of irrationality.  Look into the irrationality closely with a determination not to respect it and not to let it dominate you.  Whenever it thrusts foolish thoughts or feelings into your consciousness, pull them up by the roots, examine them, and reject them.  Do not allow yourself to remain a vacillating creature, swayed half by reason and half by infantile folly....
       But if the rebellion is to be successful in bringing individual happiness and in enabling a man to live consistently by one standard, not to vacillate between two, it is necessary that he should think and feel deeply about what his reason tells him.  Most men, when they have thrown off superficially the superstitions of their childhood, think that there is no more to be done.  They do not realize that these superstitions are still lurking underground.  When a rational conviction has been arrived at, it is necessary to dwell upon it, to follow out its consequences, to search out in oneself whatever beliefs inconsistent with the new conviction might otherwise survive..What I suggest is that a man should make up his mind with emphasis as to what he rationally believes, and should never allow contrary irrational beliefs to pass unchallenged or obtain a hold over him, however brief.  This is a question of reasoning with himself in those moments in which he is tempted to become infantile, but the reasoning, if it is sufficiently emphatic, may be very brief. 

Edited October 2, 2018 by SageModeAustin

[CreamCat]

1. It's difficult to read these images. I suggest jotting them down.
2. Leo suggests embracing paradox. This suggests not allowing paradox. Neurotic needs to solve confusions and paradoxes can make you unhappy. Be ok with paradoxes.

[SageModeAustin]

@CreamCat Just typed it out.