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  • For some reason picked up There is Nothing Wrong With You at the library and looking at it now. It's entirely printed in some horrible script font! How cringe. However, the basic idea seems exactly equivalent to Sasha Chapin Course.
    • "Suffering provides our identity" (p11)
    • "self-hate is a process", a how not a what. Not quite sure what that means. The aspects of self that are hated are the "what"s. Therefore..."I am not hating myself, self-hate is hating me" Hey agential refactoring! This seems extremely basic and also very true and effective.
    • "blaming others: self-hating and "other" hating are the same thing. Whether you are hateful towards others or hating yourself directly, it's self-hate. You are always the recipient" (p21)
      • Again, had this exact thought recently. Is it true? I mean there people I hate for what I think are good reasons. But yeah, at some modelling-prototype level there is only one person.
    • SC says:
      • If you fight the inner critic, that's just more inner fighting happening
      • The inner critic wants the best for you, it wants to protect you, it's just not doing this in a terribly helpful way
    • Not sure this person would agree, so that's interesting.
      • Something naive here, like there is "conditioning" to make us hate ourse;ves and without it we would be just happy. Like, /this is who we are/.

There is Nothing Wrong With You

14 Feb 2026 - 14 Feb 2026
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    • book by Huber
    • Huh, I actually picked this up from the library at random, but also Chapman recommends
    • From Jan 20, 2024 (two years ago)
      • For some reason picked up There is Nothing Wrong With You at the library and looking at it now. It's entirely printed in some horrible script font! How cringe. However, the basic idea seems exactly equivalent to Sasha Chapin Course.
        • "Suffering provides our identity" (p11)
        • "self-hate is a process", a how not a what. Not quite sure what that means. The aspects of self that are hated are the "what"s. Therefore..."I am not hating myself, self-hate is hating me" Hey agential refactoring! This seems extremely basic and also very true and effective.
        • "blaming others: self-hating and "other" hating are the same thing. Whether you are hateful towards others or hating yourself directly, it's self-hate. You are always the recipient" (p21)
          • Again, had this exact thought recently. Is it true? I mean there people I hate for what I think are good reasons. But yeah, at some modelling-prototype level there is only one person.
        • SC says:
          • If you fight the inner critic, that's just more inner fighting happening
          • The inner critic wants the best for you, it wants to protect you, it's just not doing this in a terribly helpful way
        • Not sure this person would agree, so that's interesting.
          • Something naive here, like there is "conditioning" to make us hate ourse;ves and without it we would be just happy. Like, /this is who we are/.
    • Feb 14th, 2026
      • We believe beyond doubt that without PUNISHMENT bad would win out over good. (p2)
        • self-hate ↔ survival
        • suffering ≡ ego-self ≡ egocentricity ≡ fear ≡ illusion of separation
      • So we are constantly looking for what is wrong, constantly creating new crises so we can rise to the occasion. To tego, that's survival. It is very important that something be wrong so we can continue to survive it.
        • OK want that one printed on a poster or tshirt or something.
      • The problem with "self-hate" is that some negativity is bad and toxic, and other forms are essential to any kind of intelligent thought. Not always easy to separate the two.