automatic thoughts and cognitive distortions in anxiety
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Automatic Thoughts  and Cognitive Distortions in Anxiety

ByAyşegül Karadeniz

When we feel anxious, we have certain automatic thoughts more frequently. If you have noticed, our thoughts during anxiety will usually fit into this formula: Also, when we are anxious, due to intense feelings of fear, we see the world in a biased way, and believe these unhelpful thoughts more easily. This is called cognitive…

the interpreter at work
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Storytelling Brain: The Left-Brain Interpreter

ByAyşegül Karadeniz

Decades of research have shown that there is an area in the left-hemisphere of our brains that constantly makes up stories about anything and everything! The pioneer of the research, neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga and his colleagues call it “the interpreter”. They discovered the interpreter while they were working with patients so called “split-brain patients”. As…

Automatic Thoughts: What are They and How can We Identify Them?
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Automatic Thoughts: What are They and How can We Identify Them?

ByAyşegül Karadeniz

In this post, I will try to tell you about what automatic thoughts are and how to identify them. Sometimes, all of a sudden, we find ourselves feeling depressed, anxious, furious, guilty… However, we can’t tell why. If someone asks, we can’t answer. Our mind is blank: “I don’t know, I just don’t feel well today.”…

automatic thoughts
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How to Challenge Automatic Thoughts in CBT

ByAyşegül Karadeniz

In one of our previous posts, we examined What Automatic Thoughts are and How to Identify Them Using CBT Techniques. In this post, I will try to tell you about how to challenge automatic thoughts in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. You might have identified more than one automatic thought that you would like to work on….