Anxiety affects people's thought system and causes distortion in their thought processes. This is most evident in the presence of cognitive distortions that manifest themselves in anxious situations where there are anxious thoughts that have been experienced before and that do not result in expected disasters. When it comes to the subject, it can lose some of its reality. It is often quite challenging to be aware of this narrowed way of thinking when we are anxious. The emotional intensity created by anxious thoughts in which cognitive distortions intensify, often causes an emotional reasoning process that prevents us from seeing the distortion of our thoughts, affecting the continuation of the anxiety experience. It is challenging to evaluate it at a tolerable level. Long-term repetitive experiences of intense anxiety cause people to become emotionally worn out and feel unhappy. Due to the long-term repetition of anxiety, people often contemplate the worst consequences in this situation by setting up catastrophic scenarios, which causes a loss of tolerance for the experience of anxiety and causes a feeling of frustration in people. People's intense emotional impact and cognitive load on anxiety also result in avoiding the experience of anxiety anyway.
The basic beliefs that appear in intolerance to anxiety are as follows:
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I can't stand the feeling."
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"If I can't control my anxiety, it will cause something much worse."
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My anxiety will continue until I stop it.”
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"Ka Anxiety is worse than physical pain or disappointment.” It's a sign that I'm lost.”
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"It's important to remember to stay calm and not be physically tense and fussy."
This and If you think that a similar belief system exists in your anxiety experience, it may be a guide for you to start a psychological support process that will create a change in this regard.
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