Sometimes our thoughts can be unhelpful and make us feel worse.
Examples of thoughts that can be unhelpful include:
- Blaming yourself for things that aren’t your fault
- Imagining worst-case scenarios
- All-or-nothing thinking (e.g. people are either all good or all bad)
- Over-generalising (e.g. I made a mistake one time which means I’m not good at anything)
- Mind reading (imagining that you know what someone else is thinking)
It can help to start keeping a log of your thoughts and where they come from, as this will help you to challenge the thoughts!
You can download this PDF to help you with your thoughts log.
How to challenge the thoughts
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