Psychological & social self-management

Automatic thoughts

• A thought or an image that comes to mind automatically and immediately in response to an event.
• An automatic thoughts are the result of one’s beliefs that has been accepted as true through repetitive social interactions.
• Some people are more prone to interpret situations negatively (negative automatic thoughts). Negative automatic thoughts are developed based on irrational beliefs.

Types of unreasonable beliefs

Change mind

• If most of automatic thoughts are negative, it is better to practice substituting more reasonable thoughts in place of negative automatic thoughts.
• Call this “changing thoughts”.
• For changing thoughts, identify unreasonable beliefs underlying negative thoughts and change unreasonable beliefs into more realistic and reliable beliefs.

Changing thoughts

• Does this though make me feel good?
• Is this though reasonable?
• Is this thought productive in this situation?
• Does this thought help me be active?
• Is this thought helpful in the current situation?