I do meditation. I also do the triple column method of automatic thoughts/cog. distortions/Rational response. aka talking back to your negative thoughts.
Lost me there for a second
Thanks for the replies. I have forgotten somethings about CBT and I have been getting less active with CBT these several months, after I have been getting more into society. But it is not necessarily because I'm doing better.
But it looks like i'm doing it correctly. I conjure up previous or faux situations that give me high anxiety. I ask myself what is the worst that can happen? Is it really that bad? And then of think of what is causing me to be anxious. Then counter belief. The hard part is making sure I have the right reason and a good counter belief. I repeat several times and then store that counter belief for when anxiety strikes.
I've never tried the exercise where you repeat phrases over and over again each day.
I find myself saying ''these people think im weird '' then becasue of cbt i can identify what type of thought that is , its''mind reading''. so then i can say to mself ''o there i go mind reading again'' which helps to decrease the anxiety
Is that all you say? This one I actually have trouble convincing me to stop thinking. My old phrase was "You have no idea what he/she is thinking." Did you create like a subconscious link that mind reading is bad first? After that counter, do you have to push the thought away or does the counter neutralize the need to think.