How can we try to manage our thoughts in a way that is healthy for us?\u00a0 We have to remember first of all that a thought is just a thought – a mental act.\u00a0 It is our interpretation of the though that is important.<\/p>\n
We sometimes get stuck in our ‘favourite’ ways of thinking and there will be a pattern to the thoughts that come into our heads.\u00a0 We may think when we are under pressure ‘I just can’t cope’ – if we think this thought is fact then we may start to feel worried, anxious, unable to concentrate, we become unable to do the work, think ‘I really cant’ cope’, start to feel sick\/headache, toss the work aside……\u00a0 As you can see, we can easily get into a vicious circle because of our interpretation of this thought.<\/p>\n
Many of the thoughts we have can be unhelpful or distorted and they fall into recognised categories.\u00a0 How many of us in certain situations try to Mind Read, where we try to predict that someone else is thinking ‘Everyone must think i am an idiot for not getting that task finished’.<\/p>\n
Or we Disqualify the Positive ‘They are only saying this is good because they feel sorry for me’.<\/p>\n
Or we Catastrophise and constantly imagine the worst ‘I am never going to get this task done, I won’t be given responsibility every again’.<\/p>\n
Using CBT can help identify our unhelpful thinking and help us put things back into perspective.<\/p>\n
View below a short video about unhelpful or distorted thinking.<\/p>\n