When stress becomes a disorder it causes a shift in ‘thinking’ and the lens you evaluate the world through (how you explain the world to yourself) distorts – either low, moderate or high. You’re not making everything up, you’re not seeing pink unicorns, but your filter goes gray and veers towards an exaggeration of the … Continue reading
The ABC of CBT – think about your thinking – consider and discuss the following diagrams to link thoughts and feelings and behaviours : An example ABC showing how stress can cause dramatic distorted thinking, which can in turn cause dramatic distorted feelings and behaviours – do you do this in some … Continue reading
| An example to show that there are 4 strands to how we feel and what we do: It is thought that anxiety and depression causes a shift in thinking – taking away clarity, and instead hardwiring a distorted negative mental filter (cognition). This causes inappropriate upsettness, both emotional and physical, which in turn causes … Continue reading
The ‘Vicious Circle of Thinking, Feeling & Behaving’ Template When stress becomes a disorder, we experience a shift in thinking to a ‘Negative Automatic Thinking‘ style when we’re processing events and what’s happening around us – this kind of thinking leads to inappropriate levels of upsettness, which leads to self sabotaging behaviour – which adds … Continue reading
Scroll down for PDF extracts from the CBTandFeelingGood.com workshops / workbooks – for you to use as a self-help resource. Note to therapists: © Veronica Walsh, no re-print or distribution without permission – but ask me if you’d like to use them with your clients, I bet I’ll say yes! (scroll down to make a … Continue reading
Changing your thinking with cognitive behavioral therapy.. A simple exercise to challenge your negative automatic thinking, and replace with healthy alternative thinking….. | Catch the negative thought: Keep a journal, taking notes of the actual thoughts you are thinking when you’re in a situation that upsets you and ends in self-limiting and self-sabotaging behaviour. Example: … Continue reading
