What are automatic negative thoughts (ANTs)? #shorts -

hi I’m Dr tracy Marx a psychiatrist and I make videos on mental health education and self-improvement today I want to help you identify automatic thoughts that you have that can affect how you feel about yourself and others we call these cognitive distortions we all have them to some degree and the more you have and the more rigidly you stick to them the more havoc that they can wreak in your life here are eight common cognitive distortions the first cognitive distortion is filtering filtering is when you focus on the negative to the exclusion of the positive so something happens and all you can see is the negative and you just can’t appreciate other possibilities you may even make excuses in your head for why alternative possibilities aren’t likely black and white thinking here is where you think things are all good or all bad and you can’t see the middle gray area and this is very inflexible thinking overgeneralization with this thinking you exaggerate or take things to the extreme m

PART 1/2 || Those pesky little ANTs 🐜… not the bug kind, the mind kind! Here’s how to recognize them and take back control.🎯 Save this video for when your brain tries to trick you again. 🧠 #MentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters #MindsetShift

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