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"You're Just Temporarily Insane."

Greg's Real Love Blog Looking at the world through the clarifying lens of Real Love "You're Just Temporarily Insane." Cindy called and described feeling depressed, irritable, and hopeless. And she was severely beating herself up that she couldn't just rise above these feelings by force of will. Earlier that day she had called a couple of friends, but she didn't feel any better. After looking at the notes of my past conversations with her, I asked, "Are your menstrual periods fairly regular?" She paused in surprised and answered, "Yes, why?" "I just looked at my notes, and I can see that previously you expressed feelings exactly like the ones you're telling me today, and you felt this way 30 days ago and 60 days ago. Not a coincidence, I think." "I never noticed that." "Sweetie, you're just temporarily insane. You can't help it. So while you're like this, just relax. We've almost