Negative feelings always say something good about youPeople may resist treatment because they have mixed or even negative feelings about recovery or will have to do something they don’t want to do. However, if you can change the way you think, you will be able to change how you feel.
Feeling Great
You feel the way you think
- Your negative emotions, like depression and anxiety, come from your thoughts and not from the circumstances of your life
- Change can happen rapidly and change can happen with motivation
- Cognitive distortions are misleading ways of thinking about yourself and the world
- Here are ten of the most common cognitive distortions
Cognitive Distortions
All-or-Nothing Thinking
- Overgeneralization
- Mental filtering
- Discounting the positive/negative
- Jumping to conclusions
- Mind reading
- Fortune Telling
- Magnification and minimizing
- Emotional Reasoning
- Labeling
- Should Statements
- Self-Blame
- Other-blame
Positive Reframing
Negative thoughts and feelings are not the result of what’s wrong with a person, but what’s right with them
- Your negative feelings always say something really good-even great-about you
- Positive reframing is one way to untwist your thinking
