It’s normal to have negative thoughts – but when these thoughts become automatic, they can become a problem. Here, an expert explains the psychology behind ‘automatic negative thoughts ...

Taking a moment to think about how you want to respond to a negative situation may help you to shift any automatic thought patterns you’ve built up over the years, and highlight just how many of ...

This handout is available for download in DOCX format and PDF format. In the most abstract sense, the function of an introductory paragraph is to move the reader from the world of daily life into the ...

Dr Schnack refers to people with the most common negative thought patterns as “catastrophisers ... After a while it becomes ...

Sometimes, we assign our negative self-story to someone else; our thought loops then try to undo the story we’ve decided someone else has written about us. We go over and over what they think ...

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So where does this narrator come from? Our core beliefs: all of the ingrained positive and negative thoughts that influence how we think and feel about ourselves and the world around us.

Small Diary: Keep a small diary with yourself and note down all the negative thoughts that come across your mind. As you start to identify your Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs), try to evaluate ...

How are humans contributing to negative selection? It's a part of evolution that can also drive some species to extinction; models of negative selection help us understand biodiversity.