Thread: Automatic thoughts ~ how do you stop them??
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Old Jan 30, 2011, 05:24 PM
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Originally Posted by MissMay1977 View Post
The way I deal with automatic thoughts is to pick out the cognitive distortions in them and than reframe the thought into a more postive thought. It takes practice but it works.
Could you give me an example of automatic thoughts that you've been able to reframe, MissMay 1977?

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