Comments on: Self-help ‘makes you feel worse’ says study

By: Coroner: Self-help course led to woman's suicide | Mutate - Mutate

Coroner: Self-help course led to woman's suicide | Mutate - Mutate — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:53:22 +0000

[...] Readers of this site know I have no love for the self-help industry, but I find it fairly difficult to believe that they were somehow responsible for this woman’s actions or that regulation of the industry would have helped this poor woman. That said, remember this study that found that self-help makes you feel worse? [...]

By: Nico

Nico — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:29:18 +0000

Isn’t that a given? Only pathetic miserable losers actually need to repeat trite phrases to themselves. The rest of us are skin to marrow certain of our awesomeness.

Amiright?

By: shadowfirebird

shadowfirebird — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:55:12 +0000

Well, actually, the story is about how affirmation / positive thinking made people feel worse.

Sort of not the same thing.