Posted by papillon2 on February 17, 2012, at 1:31:33
In reply to Re: depressive emotions, posted by Raisinb on February 16, 2012, at 23:24:07
CBT does that too, though. A typical CBT worksheet using your example of "I'm a loser" might be:
1. How strongly do you believe this thought?
2. How does this make you feel? How strong are these feelings?
2. What is the evidence for this thought? How strong is this evidence?
3. What is the evidence against thought? How strong is this evidence?
4. How strongly do you now believe this thought?
5. How do you feel now? How strong are those feelings?The above is heavily bastardized, but you get the idea.
In the end, you might decide that you aren't really a loser, or maybe you're not as much of a loser as you initially thought you were. You might go on to doing some problem solving on some of the things you have used as evidence that you are a loser, or you might undertake experiments (exposure work) to test your theory that you are a loser.
Ring the bells that still can ring
forget your perfect offering
there is a crack in everything
that's how the light gets in
~ Leonard Cohen
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