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Challenging Worry - Cognitive Exposure


Ashley -> Health Educator
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for et år siden (Edited for et år siden) 0 Ashley -> Health Educator 11226 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo

Hello!

Congrats on getting started! Once you have completed all the homework feel free to start the next session whenever you like. We generally recommend trying to complete one session a week.

What motivated you to start the program now?

Hope to hear from you soon!

Ashley

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for et år siden 0 HelpPlease 1 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo

Hi Ashley,

I just finished the first session of Overcoming Depression how long should I take before starting the next session?

Thanks!

Ashley -> Health Educator
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for et år siden 0 Ashley -> Health Educator 11226 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo

Bump! Great tips on challenging worry.

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for 11 år siden 0 eleveno 619 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo
Hi Ashley,
 
It is interesting to notice that this technique is similar to the way I practice yoga. One of the objetives of yoga with a regular practice is to get aware of worry and other thinking patterns but do not get involved with these thoughts. To help with this there are the focus on the postures and breath to return all the time after realizing these thought patterns.
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for 11 år siden (Edited for 11 måneder siden) 0 Ashley -> Health Educator 11226 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo

There are a number of CBT techniques that are commonly used to help people challenge worry including: thought records, thought stopping, worry time, challenging the value of worry, problem solving, experiments to increase intolerance of uncertainty and cognitive exposure. Let’s take a look at them one at a time:

Cognitive Exposure: People who worry often try very hard not to worry. In fact, people can do all kinds of things to try to not worry. People try hard not to worry for all kinds of reasons including a belief that worrying about something makes it more likely that if they worry too much they will go crazy. Certainly many of the things that people worry about (finances, illness and death) can be very scary. However, by trying hard not to worry we can give our worries more power than they deserve. To see how this can happen, consider the following example. For the next two minutes, try as hard as you can to NOT think of a whit elephant. Do everything that you can to Not think of a white elephant. Take two minutes to do this experiment. We will be here when you are finished.

What happened?

Well, if you are like most people, the harder you tried not to think of a white elephant, the more you thought of a white elephant. What does this mean about you…or white elephants? Nothing! It just means like most people trying hard not to think of something makes you think of it even more. How do you not think of white elephants? How do you get them out of your head? Why, by thinking about them of course. If you are like most people, if you start daydreaming about white elephants, you will soon end up somewhere else all together. So what does this experiment prove?  
What this experiment proves is that the more you try to NOT think of something, the more you will think of it. Now imagine that we ask you to NOT think of something but this time instead of a white elephant we ask you to not think of one of your worries. What should happen? That’s right, you should have a hard time getting the worry out of your head. In fact because it is one of your worries (not just a white elephant), you should have an even harder time NOT thinking about it. OK, so now what does this mean about you…or your worry…? The right answer is nothing! It just means that the harder you try not to think of something, the harder it is to get out of your head. And this is the tricky part where you can get into trouble. It is easy to believe that not being able to NOT think of a white elephant means nothing about you or the white elephant (If you have to read that last sentence a couple of times). On the other hand it is hard not to think that not being able to not think of a worry means something about you or the worry. Common beliefs that people have about not being able to get worries out of their mind are that “there must be something wrong with me,”I am losing control of my mind,” and “this worry must be important.” Maybe you can see how it is these beliefs about worries and worrying that lead to the most trouble of all.
Have you tried this technique? If so, please share your thoughts.  

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