Some RI Spots

Sample Recovery International Tools

• Treat mental health as a business and not as a game.
• Humor is our best friend, temper is our worst enemy.
• If you can’t change a situation, you can change your attitude towards it.
• Be self-led, not symptom-led.
• Nervous symptoms and sensations are distressing but not dangerous.
• Temper is, among other things, blindness to the other side of the story.
• Comfort is a want, not a need.
• There is no right or wrong in the trivialities of every day life.
• Calm begets calm, temper begets temper.
• Don’t take our own dear selves too seriously.
• Feelings should be expressed and temper suppressed.
• Helplessness is not hopelessness.
• Some people have a passion for self-distrust.
• Temper maintains and intensifies symptoms.
• Do things in part acts.
• Endorse yourself for the effort, not only for the performance.
• Have the courage to make a mistake.
• Feelings are not facts.
• Do the things you fear and hate to do.
• Fear is a belief—beliefs can be changed.
• Every act of self-control leads to a sense of self-respect.