If I haven’t turned the iron off the house will burn down.I was late to work, I’m going to be fired.I’m going to make a fool of myself and no one will talk to me.Jumping to the worst possible conclusion. I don’t have time to do it all, so I won’t start.I won’t be able to do this perfectly so I may as well not do it at all.Something is 100% bad or 100% good, right or wrong. Here are 10 types of automatic negative thoughts that you may be able to recognise in your own life. Even when we have difficult thoughts, they don’t have to be in the driver’s seat of our lives! We can’t control our thoughts or completely eliminate these ANTs, but the good news is that once you understand them, you can practice spotting them and choosing your response to minimise their effect. But when our brains get into the habit of repeating these negative thoughts over and over they can have an adverse impact on our wellbeing and make difficult situations even harder to deal with. In fact, our brains are wired to protect us by paying more attention to the negative experiences in our life than the positive ones (this is called negativity bias). We may not even be very aware of them in the moment. ANTs happen very quickly, without conscious processing or reasoning and we accept them as normal. They are distortions or negative interpretations of ourselves, what is happening around us, the past or the future, based on our beliefs and assumptions. Automatic negative thoughts (ANTs) are stories that we tell ourselves that aren’t necessarily true.
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