What makes humans unique is their ability to perceive, interpret, reason and feel. These characteristics, which are bestowed only on human beings, are not available to any other living creature. Well, did you know that 60,000 to 90,000 thoughts pass through our minds a day? How many of them can we notice? We often do not notice our thoughts because our emotions get in the way of our thoughts. The human mind works according to a sequence; He first perceives the situation he encounters, then interprets and makes sense of it, and then feels the emotion. However, Turkish society first notices their emotions and then their thoughts.
Our thoughts are divided into two: positive and negative. Our negative thoughts are like "my mother doesn't understand me", "no one loves me", "I will fail this exam". Our positive thoughts are“I am a happy person”, “life is beautiful”, “I am important”. Nowadays, there is a saying that is on everyone's lips. “Think positively and get negative thoughts out of your mind.” But no one tells you how to turn negatives into positives, maybe a magic wand will change them.
The basis of psychological disorders. There are negative, unrealistic and dysfunctional thoughts. Each psychological disorder has different cognitive characteristics. So, someone with depression may think, "I am a worthless person." Someone with anxiety may think, "When the phone rings, I will definitely receive bad news." In anxiety disorders, our cognitions occur when we perceive very low possibilities as if they were 100 percent. People with anxiety have basic cognitive characteristics.
Common basic cognitive features seen in anxiety disorders:
1) In anxiety disorder, certain stimuli are perceived as more dangerous than they actually are (in panic disorder, innocent heart palpitations can be seen in the heart).
2) Anxiety patients perceive the possibility of the negative consequences they fear to be more exaggerated than they actually are (like an individual with social phobia firmly believing that their hands will shake and their face will turn red in a social environment).
3) In anxiety disorder, the occurrence of the feared outcome is perceived as a disaster. (When a person has a panic attack, they go crazy.)
4) Anxiety patients engage in a series of cognitive and behavioral avoidances to avoid the outcome they fear (distracting attention, trying not to think, carrying medication with them, not going to crowded places from which they cannot easily exit, or sitting near the exit). .
5) In anxiety disorder, physical symptoms increase the judgment that the feared thing is real, that is, as anxiety increases, physical symptoms increase and as physical symptoms increase, anxiety increases, turning into a vicious circle.
6) In patients with anxiety disorders, the danger increases. They perceive the situation as too big and unbearable to cope with, and they perceive their own coping skills as very low or non-existent. For example, a student who is made fun of by his friend in class sees the situation he is experiencing as a disaster and sees himself as too weak to cope.
Being aware of your thought system helps you see which thoughts negatively affect you and make you sick.
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