“I won’t be able to pass the exam.” Here, the feeling is anxiety, and the automatic thought is a comment that is predicting what will happen in the future. They are also called hot thoughts. They sound more like comments. However, automatic thoughts are the ones that are most related to our powerful feelings. In this post, I will try to tell you how you can use some of these techniques to identify your own automatic thoughts, but first, let’s start with understanding what an automatic thought is. There are a few techniques, we use in cognitive therapy in order to help clients to identify their automatic thoughts. As the thought is more familiar, more accepted, like a part of the personality, it is more automatic, and the more automatic the thought is, the more difficult it is to detect it. This also happens if the thought is very familiar to the person. Especially, when we are feeling really powerful feelings, such as anxiety, it can be very difficult to identify that particular thought behind that feeling. “I’m afraid, but I don’t know what I’m afraid of.”Īt times like these, the reason behind our unpleasant feelings might be a stressful thought, which we will refer to as an automatic thought. “I don’t know, I just don’t feel well today.” Sometimes, all of a sudden, we find ourselves feeling depressed, anxious, furious, guilty… However, we can’t tell why. In this post, I will try to tell you about what automatic thoughts are and how to identify them.
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