Title: Rational and Irrational Beliefs - SMART Recovery
Headings: 
Rational and Irrational Beliefs
Rational or Irrational?
The Notorious Five
What are Rational Beliefs?
What’s the Concern?

Content: Correlate with healthy risk-taking initiatives; Link to a sense of emotional well-being and positive mental health; Lead to a realistic sense of perspective; Further the empowerment of others; Stimulate an openness to experience and an experimental outlook; Direct our efforts along ethical pathways. What’s the Concern? Harmful irrational beliefs cloud your consciousness with distortions, misconceptions, overgeneralizations, and oversimplifications….They limit and narrow your outlook such that you repeat mistakes. Some forms put temporary escape of tension over long-term goals and benefits. We find core irrational beliefs present in destructive…conditions such as impulsiveness, arrogance, defeatism, condemnation, depression, anxiety, hostility, insecurity, addictions, procrastination, prejudice, envy, compulsions, and obsessions.’