Bad Jelly

By Scott Gladstone and M.D.

The purpose of this book is to help you expose and understand the root causes of your "false" mental pain and begin the process of healing. The information I have provided here will allow you to see that your longstanding psychological suffering has not been based on the truth about you, and that just beyond that veil of falsehood is the joyful truth, accessible to anyone who truly wants it.

As a Board Certified Psychiatrist, I have had the opportunity to observe the psychological experiences of many people. For the past twenty years, I have treated thousands of patients, from children to adults and everyone in between. Based on my observations of these patients and the knowledge I've accumulated over many years of practicing, I've created the theory of Bad Jelly, and I offer it here for your benefit.

By learning about Bad Jelly and how to identify its presence and influence, you will be able to begin distinguishing the thoughts that are based on your true, innate self from those that are based on Bad Jelly. By applying the techniques I've developed that neutralize Bad Jelly, you can free yourself from this harmful way of living.

• Language: English
• Publisher: eBookIt.com
• Release date: Jan 31, 2017
• ISBN: 9781456628147

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part One: Exposing & Understanding Bad Jelly

The Components of Personality

Defense Mechanism Land

A Distortion of Reality

A Distorted Self-Concept

Bad Jelly’s Path to Self-Destruction

Part Two: Beyond Bad Jelly: The Innate Self

The Ego Ideal

Self-Preservation

Part 3: Neutralizing the Bad Jelly, Accessing the Innate

Breaking Out of Old Patterns

Vulnerability vs. Immunity

Part Four: Building Immunity

Sample Essay

Epilogue

How to Read This Book

…and I must make my way along this narrow ridge

between the truth and the caricature of it.

–Vladimir Nabokov

The purpose of this book is to help you expose and understand the root causes of your false mental pain and begin the process of healing. The information I have provided here will allow you to see that your longstanding psychological suffering has not been based on the truth about you, and that just beyond that veil of falsehood is the joyful truth, accessible to anyone who truly wants it.

As a Board Certified Psychiatrist, I have had the opportunity to observe the psychological experiences of many people. For the past twenty years, I have treated thousands of patients, from children to adults and everyone in between. Based on my observations of these patients and the knowledge I’ve accumulated over many years of practicing, I’ve created the theory of Bad Jelly, and I offer it here for your benefit.

Before reading this book, you may have actually believed that the thoughts caused by Bad Jelly were the truth. Due to the credence given to Bad Jelly, it’s been allowed to have horrible effects on people’s lives. Bad Jelly keeps people blind to their true selves and traps them in a painful psychological bondage - all based on past experiences.

By learning about Bad Jelly and how to identify its presence and influence, you will be able to begin distinguishing the thoughts that are based on your true, innate self from those that are based on Bad Jelly. By applying the techniques I’ve developed that neutralize Bad Jelly, you can free yourself from this harmful way of living.

In Part One, you’ll learn all about the definition of Bad Jelly and how to expose it. I’ll familiarize you with the simple but important concepts behind Bad Jelly’s development and operation in your life. You’ll find out about the seven forms of childhood trauma and how they affect your thoughts about yourself and cause certain defense mechanisms to develop as your primary way of thinking. You’ll learn about those specific defense mechanisms at play when Bad Jelly is boss, and you’ll see how Bad Jelly leads to a distorted self-concept and a distorted understanding of reality.

Part Two will focus on the true you, the you that lies underneath the Bad Jelly. This portion will teach you all about your innate self: what it is, how to access it, and why your happiness depends on it.

In Part Three, I’ll teach you techniques that will help you to expose the Bad Jelly and neutralize it. You’ll learn how to access your innate self, and I’ll show you how to cultivate immunity from Bad Jelly and be on guard for instances of vulnerability to Bad Jelly.

In Part Four, I’ll demonstrate some of the methods I frequently use with my patients when they’re stuck in Bad Jelly’s defense mechanism land. These include simple reminders that can be used on a daily basis, as well as a more involved writing exercise that can be extremely helpful.

This is the type of book that you can turn to again and again throughout your life as you face new challenges and stresses. The process of healing that can be instituted based on the information in this book is one that can be carried onward for the rest of your life. Becoming free from the hold that our Bad Jelly has on our thoughts and our lives is a process that must unfold on a perpetual basis, but it becomes easier and more natural if we continuously put it into practice.

It is my sincere hope that your healing will begin here and now, through reading this concise book. I have written it in a way that is accessible to all readers, and it will provide you with everything you need to know about the techniques I use with my patients in a clinical setting. It is the success of my patients which has inspired me to make this treatment available on a larger scale, and I truly hope that you will enjoy the increased quality of life and enriched experiences that they have been allotted through the ideas I share right here.

Part One: Exposing & Understanding Bad Jelly

-What is this Bad Jelly, anyway?

Bad Jelly is the basic concept I use in therapy with my patients to relieve their emotional pain. I explain it like this: We’re born as an empty jelly donut. During childhood and adolescence, jelly is injected into us based on our experiences, and it functions as our identity through the childhood and adolescent years. Our identity is the basis for all of our ideas about ourselves and other people, as well as our relationships and our perception of the outside world.

This jelly can be healthy and positive, or it can be

harmful and destructive. Innate jelly is the g-d given identity that