

If I ‘couldn’t cope’ I’d drop down dead or burst into flames, yet here I am. It’s going to be awful, I’m going to embarrass myself…Īctually, that’s fortune telling, I don’t know what’s going to happen, all I can do is my best, maybe I’ll be a bit anxious, I can cope with that if it happens, and it might not happen, I was okay last week at that other … Also, if somebody does think little of you, you don’t have to agree with it … Also, not everybody will adore and admire me in this life. And I got on well with many other people now that I think of it.

My family like me, and I have my friend from work and my friend from school. Here is an example: Negative Automatic Thoughts Note the distorted self-talk – stop it in its tracks – examine it for evidence – and if you decide it is irrational and unhelpful, replace it with alternative healthy thinking – consciously and deliberately. Summary: thought-stop, reappraise, and reframe! It costs me too much, what is another evidence based, clear way, to look at this situation….’ Example: ‘Actually, that’s negative predicting, I don’t actually know what’s going to happen, all I can do is my best, maybe I’ll be a bit anxious, I can cope with that if it happens, and it might not happen, I was okay last week at that other event even though I tortured myself before it with this kind of thinking. ‘What is the evidence for this? Is there evidence against it? Is there another way to look at it?’. Challenge the negative thought: Dispute the thoughts and beliefs – examine them to see if they’re valid.
