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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