Change Your Anxious Thinking: CBT for Anxiety & Cognitive Restructuring 

mediation might help plus these techniques

What medication was that if I may ask? I've tried everything without any success I'm starting to wonder, maybe it's just not for me.

@@right..5651what helped me was working out and eating a nutritional diet. it allowed my body /mind to naturally be more calm and relaxed but it took some time…. I started this battle with panic attacks and anxiety 11 months ago and didn’t start seeing progress till 3 months ago I often thought I was going crazy the first couple months but with the help of myself, my family and some therapy sessions I was able to stabilize my mind. I used to have panic attacks everyday my friend so if I can do it you can do it. You got this 💪

@@right..5651the supplements I take are magnesium citrate, Omega fatty acids, sea moss & I sometimes take valerian root & ashwaghanda.

I'm considering taking medication. Can you share what you're taking and if there's any side effects ?

I'm just past 2 minutes in and I'm overwhelmed

Why is not is helpful

Glad you like them, that's great to hear!

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Me too

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That's great to hear. Glad you liked it!

Not sure if you'll find them helpful , but I have a similar-ish video on panic attacks at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--3suLOx5R6o.html and a video about exposure therapy at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Yv6ptSKEotA.html that I'll probably redo at some point.

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@@SelfHelpToons no thank you, your channel has been a part of changing my life.

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Thanks!

Probably need to work on my thumbnails or clickbait titles.

Ikr he sounds like he's about to cry 😂

Hmm I didnt have that impression at all. I liked the smooth tone and easy pace, the medium volume. I found it easy to listen to.

Agree it's a great practice to note the differences between how things actually worked out compared to what you were worrying or expecting would happen as this encourages less anxiety-provoking, more realistic expectations in the future.

@@SelfHelpToons If only there were an "App" for this! Seeing none, aware of any forthcoming? ... or do I have to build my own (only 1/2 kidding).

I've looked at so many CBT/self-help apps, but I don't think I've ever made it through all the questions at the start and been able to see what any of them actually do

Haha, you're the third person to comment that I sound like Trudeau

You're right. Some people do find CBT techniques to challenge negative thoughts lead to rumination or more worrying and find it more helpful to just observe these thoughts mindfully. Other people are very resistant to the idea of just letting thoughts go without doing anything about them, or feel like it's impossible to do. Personally I use them both together, taking a few moments to reframe any negatively biased thoughts, and then just letting them go. Regarding changing core beliefs, this can be really difficult if we're feeling strong emotions at the time. It's generally more effective to examine core beliefs when we're not currently feeling anxious or depressed for example.

@@SelfHelpToons ok thanks for replying. I’m currently going through a weird mindset these couple of years. I started ruminating during a relationship that wasn’t working out. Over time I left the relationship and the ruminating subsided and I thought it had disappeared. I still experienced anxiety from time to time but no longer was ruminating. A couple of years later I was reading a book about happiness from the Dalai Lama and in the book it talked about how happiness comes from within and not outside of us. This made me really confused because to me happiness was hanging out with friends and family, doing things I enjoyed etc… and now this person is telling me that my happiness shouldn’t depend on the external things. I got so confused about this idea that I began ruminating and it the idea that happiness doesn’t come from outside made me feel really disconnected with the world. The ruminating lasted for months, just constantly having obsessive thoughts about happiness. I then started to look up some more information about happiness and everywhere I looked it said the same as the book that happiness comes from within and shouldn’t depend on the things outside of me. Like they say in spirituality or Buddhism that we should detach ourselves from material things. This idea of detachment makes me feel very disconnected with life. Even still today. My rumination has gotten to the point now where if I don’t know something I’ll ruminate about it for days,weeks or months. I’d ruminate about a show I watched, a new city I’m in, I’d ruminate if god is real or about the fact that in spirituality they say that we are all the same being and that the “universe/cosmic energy/higher power” is the exact same in every person therefore even tho we think differently and look differently. At our core we are exactly the same. Which sounds like it’s nice but the way I see it is that means I am my mum, I am my friend, I am my future partner, I am my kids, etc… because according to spirituality we are different souls we are just one soul that’s has divided itself. It’s like what I thought reality was is now completely flipped upside down and I can’t make sense of reality anymore. I feel like I’m experiencing DRDP and that I could potentially have existential OCD which would make sense. I am seeing a therapist at the moment as well for all this and we talked about core beliefs and where maybe my anxiety started from. Which is why I commented earlier because I’m stuck between what’s going to be the most beneficial for me as today you hear to just observe your thoughts and feelings ( you are not your thoughts and your are not your emotions ) where as the more scientific side say to challenge your thoughts and to feel your emotions and that your emotions are signs that something isn’t right or true to oneself.

Here's my video about that ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zZ-l9B6Kbfs.html

I see you found my video Letting Go of Thoughts. There's also this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CpdVMs818AE.html

You can change how you relate to your thoughts: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CpdVMs818AE.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Em_MblRfylo.html You can try to change the situation: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w0Jrfjmve58.html Or you can regulate your emotions: www.selfhelptoons.com/dbt-emotion-regulation-skills/

While I disagree that CBT isn't a good method to manage anxiety, I agree with you about acceptance m.ru-vid.comX1MJmf-YFvM

Obviously I'm not saying that CBT isn't a good method. I was stating that your particular CBT method was lacking and contrary to what other experts in CBT would advise you to do. @@SelfHelpToons

I obviously wasn't saying that CBT isn't a good method, I was saying that the specific method that you are recommending here is flawed and actually contrary to what other experts in CBT would advise you do to restructure your thoughts. @@SelfHelpToons

I'm all for acceptance based approaches to anxiety and have a number of videos that cover this and how we can respond mindfully to thoughts rather than trying to change them. I'm still not understanding why you think my method of cognitive restructuring is contrary to the type of cognitive restructuring that other experts advise.

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