![]() What’s wrong with him? You can’t treat people that way. ![]() Why does this keep happening to me? I can’t stand this anymore. Our automatic negative thoughts that are associated with anger are things around the need for fairness and respect becoming aggravated, frustrated or losing patience violations of rules and revenge. And even if the things we’re dreading never actually occur, we’ve already made ourselves pay the price and suffer over them whether they actually happen or not. And so we wind up suffering the consequences right now. And even though these things haven’t occurred yet and may never occur, we tend to respond as if they’ve already happened, or that they’re inevitable. What am i gonna do? I should just quit now.Īnd all sorts of what-ifs which are probably the most common types of thoughts people have when they’re feeling anxious or worried what if this happens what if that happens what if what if what ifĪnd when we’re feeling anxious, our thoughts are too a future-oriented, and we end up spending a lot of time and energy worrying about how things might be in the future. People are gonna wonder what’s wrong with me. And we underestimate our ability to cope with things.Īnd so we have automatic negative thoughts about threats and danger: oh no! What’s happening? This is terrible.Īnd automatic negative thoughts about our ability to cope with things: i can’t handle this. And we overestimate the severity of what will happen. It’ll never get any better.Īnd when we’re feeling anxious we tend to have thoughts that overestimate the likelihood that something bad will happen. Life stinks.Īnd automatic negative thoughts about the future: things are never gonna work out for me. Nobody even cares about me.Īnd automatic negative thoughts about the world, which is just a general sort of negativity about everything: life is so unfair. What’s wrong with me? I can’t do anything right. Examples of automatic negative thoughts about ourselves are things such as: I’m such a loser. And these thoughts center around three themes: negative thoughts about ourselves, negative thoughts about the world, and negative thoughts about the future. ![]() When we’re feeling depressed we tend to have very negative thoughts. So now we’re gonna look at some common automatic negative thoughts that people have that tend to be associated with depression, anxiety and anger. Some of our automatic thoughts can be pleasant or neutral, but more often than not they tend to be negative.Īutomatic negative thoughts have a strong effect on our mood and how we’re feeling, and learning how to respond to our automatic negative thoughts in ways that help us feel better is an important part of mindfulness based cognitive therapy. A thought just pops into our head without us even thinking about it. I’ve only added minimal editing, so I apologize for any errors, run-on sentences, etc.Ī lot of our thoughts are automatic. This transcription was auto-generated by YouTube.
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