MM: I like that so much more than mine! The one I have (which is rather a nice looking chart and I wouldn't really mind it if I was at a different stage in life) has me list the event. I then have to rate how I feel about it (with multiple different spots for different emotions). Then I can list up to 8 negative thoughts I've had about it. Then have to rate how much I believe them. Then have to fill out all the different distortions they are. Then I am supposed to write down the sort of thought I SHOULD thing instead. Then am supposed to write down how much I believe the new statement, then go back and write down how much I still believe the first one!

It is way too much for me. He's said I don't have to do the positive thought it clearly doesn't change what I believe... and that has frustrated me, because I think the "positive" thought automatically already... I've already taught myself what the right things to think are. It just doesn't change how I feel about the original thought, and that's what I guess I need help with. But I don't see how writing them down and identifying what's wrong with them is going to help when I already KNOW why they're wrong and logically I know they aren't true. Bah.