Types of Unhelpful Thoughts
Being able to notice unhelpful thoughts is the first step you can take to adjust them to more helpful ones. Have a look at the following eight examples – do you recognise any of these thoughts?
When you predict the future, you are assuming that you know what’s going to happen and that it will be bad. It is sometimes related to overgeneralising.
“There’s no point in doing that thing because I’m not going to manage it.”
You might say:
So you are predicting that something bad will happen instead of thinking:
That’s where overgeneralising and predicting the future can sometimes relate to each other.