Negative Thoughts? Cognitive Behavioral Therapy In Reno
CBT can help you regain control over your life by changing negative thoughts and behaviors.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Is a safe and effective way to address treatment-resistant depression when other approaches haven’t worked
Regain Control
You can regain control over your life by changing your thoughts and behaviors.
As Effective as Medication
Cognitive Behavior Therapy is one of the most researched therapeutic modalities, proven to be as effective as medication.
Change Behavioral Patterns
Trauma-informed therapy, mindfulness, and other modalities can work alongside CBT to change behavioral patterns.
Don’t Let Your Negative Thoughts Run Your Life
- Do your negative thoughts play like a broken record in your brain?
- Do you feel like your negative thoughts keep you from living a life full of happiness and joy?
- Can one negative interaction cause a bad mood for the entire day?
- Do you often think other people’s behaviors are because of something you did?
Ever feel like you are in Groundhog’s Day with your negative thought cycle? Having occasional anxious thoughts is normal, but you might feel like you’ve lost control over your own mind and emotions when negative thoughts repeat day in and day out. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps you pay more attention to those thoughts and feelings and then choose different behaviors.
How Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Can Help Stop Out-of-Control Thoughts
About 90 to 95% of our thoughts repeat from one day to the next without us even being aware of them. What we think daily becomes the bedrock of how we see the world around us. Our thoughts provoke emotions that create behaviors. Many of these thought patterns stem from genetics, temperaments, history, changing moods, and past relationships. More so, these thoughts can automatically generate response patterns in our behaviors. About 95% of the way people interact with others has more to do with how they feel rather than what the other person is actually doing.
Here’s an example. Let’s say, one morning you go to work and walk by the receptionist who doesn’t say hello on that particular day. Your mind might quickly begin compiling a list of all of the reasons why she didn’t say hello. You could soon be flooded with thoughts like, “she’s mad at me,” “she doesn’t like me,” “I did something wrong,” or “she’s not respectful.”
More than likely, what’s going on with the receptionist has nothing to do with you. Maybe she woke up feeling unwell, or had a fender bender on her way to work, or is going through a breakup. But, if you have a history of being defensive and often feeling disrespected, your mind will start serving up a steaming plate of negative thoughts.
At Memor Health, our Cognitive Behavioral Therapists understand these negative spirals and can help you learn to stop them before they get out of control. By working with a licensed CBT therapist, you can start to examine your thoughts and become aware of the emotions and actions they trigger. So, instead of thinking the receptionist’s silence was intentional and walking away absorbed in anxiety, you can catch the start of that negative thought and instead ask her about her morning or if she wants some coffee.
How To Know If CBT Is Right For You?
If the example above sounds like something you can relate to, we’ve listed 10 cognitive distortions that CBT can help to change (Find out more about the Cognitive Distortions Questionnaire).
Mind reading:
assuming you know what other people are thinking.
All-or-nothing thinking:
seeing outcomes as all good or all bad with no in between.
Labeling:
generalize by taking one characteristic of a person, and applying it to the whole person.
Overgeneralization:
you apply one experience to all experiences assuming the future outcomes will always be the same.
Should statements:
Should statements (“I should…”) are a common negative thinking pattern, that can increase or cause fear and worry. They also put unreasonable demands and pressure on the person making the statements, which can make you feel guilty or like you’ve failed.
Catastrophizing:
imagining the worst possible outcomes.
Emotional reasoning:
an emotional reaction proves something is true, regardless of evidence proving otherwise.
Mental filter:
focusing only on the negative aspects of a situation and filtering out all of the positive ones.
Personalization:
you believe that everything others do or say is some kind of direct, personal reaction to you; or believe you are the cause of some negative external event that you are not responsible for.
Minimizing the positive:
assuming you know what other people are thinking.filtering out all the positive evidence about your performance, and only paying attention to the negative. This reinforces negative feelings and explains away positive ones.
If some of the items on that list sound things you regularly do, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy might be a good fit. Many of us go through our own mental health struggles believing that something is wrong with us. At Memor Health, we want you to know you are not alone. We want to put you on the path to overcoming runaway negative thoughts and taking back control over your own life.
Getting Started With Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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Is CBT Really Going To Work For Me?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is one of the most researched and successful modalities of therapy being practiced today. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, various studies have shown similarly lower levels of depression and anxiety among clients who use CBT versus those who use medication to treat mental health issues.
CBT also works alongside other forms of therapy, such as mindfulness and trauma-based approaches. Experiencing trauma can cause PTSD, anxiety, depression, hypervigilance, defensiveness, mistrust, and isolation. CBT allows people to recognize those response patterns and choose different thoughts and associated actions.
If CBT sounds like something you’d like to pursue, Memor Health wants to help you find the right fit. Many of our therapists offer CBT, and depending on your provider, many doctors registered as a psychologist Ph.D., licensed clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, and certified counselors offer Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
You Can Take Back Control of Your Mind
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is one of the most researched and successful modalities of therapy being practiced today. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, various studies have shown similarly lower levels of depression and anxiety among clients who use CBT versus those who use medication to treat mental health issues.
CBT also works alongside other forms of therapy, such as mindfulness and trauma-based approaches. Experiencing trauma can cause PTSD, anxiety, depression, hypervigilance, defensiveness, mistrust, and isolation. CBT allows people to recognize those response patterns and choose different thoughts and associated actions.
How can I take back the consuming thoughts in my mind?
Although outside factors affect us, they don’t have to control us. While we can often feel like since things are happening to us — pandemics, loss, global events — we have no agency over how we feel. At Memor Health, we want to validate the effects that negative situations can cause on your life. We also want to help you find your inner power to choose your thoughts and actions to create the life you want.
We all have stressors and thought distortions that create our realities. We want to help you make the choice in the way you see, and interact with the world so that you can regain a balanced life.
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