How to Change How You Think 💪 Cognitive Distortions Part 2

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Negative thinking is just an overprotective mode that needs to be switched off. It will make you stay in your comfort zone.

Summary of the process: 1. Notice and Name Notice how you thinking Write your thoughts, ask a friend for help, do it with your therapist help 2. Check for distortios Notice your distorted thinking patterns Look for your "always, never, should, shouldn't" and your assumptions 3. Explore the benefits of this thoughts ¿Why this is confortable in the short term? 4. Challenge the thought 4.1. ¿What a rational friend/family member whould say if you tell them this thouhgts? 4.2. ¿What you'd tell them to help if they had this thought? ¿What other perspectives are there? 4.3. Reframing 4.4. Look for exceptions ¿Is your thinking wrong or posibly false? 4.5. Try to see both sides 4.6. Watch for extreme wording, avoid the "never, always" and use precise words instead 4.7. Try thinking the opposite 4.8. How your life would be different if you stop beliving that thought 5. Choose Choose the better option for you You can do it, good luck!

I actually liked myself better when I realised that my brain is trying to help- in twisted ways but that's what is available because I'm not doing anything. Thank you my brain but I'll take over from here. Thank you Emma for sharing this 🌹

“We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.”some of us we see failing as failure. Have a delightful day sharing some positivity to your side

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We say things to ourselves that we would never say to anyone else. Self-compassion is very tricky to balance... and we are either overdoing it... why-do-bad-things-always-happen-to-me ... or, way underdoing it... I-always-mess-things-up. But if we can hit the right spot, it brings confidence and the right attitude towards life.

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Totally! I find that recognizing our distortions is the first step, then it's important to learn to reframe our thinking and/or replace our thoughts with more useful/realistic thoughts.

Hi , i'm a girl adolescens . I'm was born and raised in a developing contries in Asia where no one know about eating disorder or despression. In my community there are liite concern overthe eating disorder and mental health. Even the doctor here don't know about eating disorder as well as my family. Well, I'm struggle with alone by myself, and I see that this video is significantly helpful . Thanks for great content and knowledge

I would love to know how you work with someone who has experienced trauma. If the thoughts are based on a real event that was traumatic. I guess this can still apply there also. It has been helpful to think maybe I’m catastrophizing everything based on my one bad experience

thank you!

Can my anxiety disorder be cured ? Is there any hope for us?

I get yes and no answers, to make my decision making easier, but it most of the time leads me to living in a box, and going in circles.

Can you please do a video on stopping chronic stress? I lose my appetite all the time and it’s from chronic stress. I actually gain weight, not lose during this time because of cortisol

I usually don't think about anything negative and I am always in a good mood. But I get this feeling in my stomach, a feeling of burning and at the same time I start to feel like I'm getting a little hopeless and sad. But it comes and goes. What is that? How can I avoid that.

I'm 47 and my whole life my distorted thinking has been to analyze everything people say and anything I precieved that could be a potential future conflict, catrastropise, play out all the potential arguments and mentality prepare myself for the worst of what I thought would come.  99.9999% of the time those interactions never happened.   I realized just today 2023-10-01 that I do that because growing up my mom, a stay at home partner with low self esteem, and her partner, an uneducated  promiscuous alcoholic, would have screaming arguments all night when he would come home from being out drinking.  Looking back i see my 45ish years of distorted thinking has been to come up with ways,  arguments, ideas, to stop their fighting, to "silence the lambs so to speak", from the age of two until 18 when I left for the Navy.  You have helped me come to this realization, now I can close the door on those arguments from my childhood, and let this exhaustive paranoid happiness draining depression inducing way of thinking go.   Tysm

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