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Automatic thoughts

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Automatic thoughts
Thoughts that automatically come to mind when a particular situation occurs. Cognitive-behavioral therapy seeks to challenge automatic thoughts.

automatic thoughts,
n.pl internalized perceptions involuntarily generated by an individual. These impressions may be triggered by becoming aware of a situation or circumstance, may develop quickly, and are not subject to detailed inquiry or logical examination.


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These Negative Automatic Thoughts (or NATs) cause emotional problems (in this case, social anxiety).
It employs terms such as Negative Automatic Thoughts and Thinking Errors to describe the different ways in which unhealthy thinking can cause emotional problems.
The therapist try to validate your thoughts from the reality, he/she try to focus on the evidences that what evidences are there which makes your assumptions and automatic thoughts.
 
 
 
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