Concern is Your Friend, Anxiety Your Foe
In Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), we distinguish between healthy negative emotions and unhealthy negative emotions. Healthy negative emotions include concern, sadness, remorse, disappointment, sorrow, and self-helping anger, self-helping jealousy, and self-helping envy. In this piece, I will discuss the healthy negative feeling of concern. I often say concern is my favorite healthy negative emotion. … Read more