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Aug 22, 2014, 11:21 AM
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Administrator Community Support Team
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Member Since: Feb 2014
Location: Vancouver, BC Canada
Posts: 13,795
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cloudyworld, I use to do the "what if?" (dysfunctional thinking). I thought only of the bad things that would happen and not of the good things. I saw a psychiatrist who taught me to chart these thoughts (a) followed by what I thought would happen (b) followed by what actually happened (c). I did this for about 1 1/2 months. I began to see I always thought negatively. Over the course of the next 1 1/2 months, my thinking patterns began to change. I learned that most likey outcome was positive and at the worst neutral. It took 3 months to change my dysfunctional thinking.
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