I don’t have a book recommendation, that specific, but cognitive behavioural therapy really helps with this. It just takes longer than they make it out. What helped me is to do a sort of CBT journal. And when a irrational thought reoccurred I could re-read how I already worked through it.
There isn’t really any quick fixed for this.
Our brain builts stronger pathways for information we use a lot. Sadly, in a way obsessive, repetitive thoughts get registered as important. So it’s vital to rethink/reframe repetitively too.
Eventually the brain will stop going down the used path and that pathway will wither.
For books more general, I guess Norman Doige The Brain Changes Itself, on neuroplasticity.
There are several CBT apps available, sadly the one I used doesn’t seem to be available anymore. But I use a journal these days. I downloaded and printed out a list of common thought distortions/fallacies and work through anxious and worrying thoughts by “writing it through”, I find that it works better than online or “thinking it through”.
Another thing that CBT as I experienced hasn’t covered are that sometimes it helps allowing the anxious thoughts to be true. Like for example “if I do this that will happen”, it’s helpful to think how you would work through the problem if worst comes to worse, so you kind of have a library of solutions your mind can fall back on.
Obviously, I don’t know what kind of thoughts plague you, but I do hope you find relief.
Altruistic_Witness55 on
ACT by Russ Harris
Jack-Campin on
Suzuki, *Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind*.
Potatoskins937492 on
Along with CBT, there’s a subcategory called Dialectal Behavioral Therapy. This may also help. Worksheets are going to probably be more helpful than a book because you can actively practice change.
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I don’t have a book recommendation, that specific, but cognitive behavioural therapy really helps with this. It just takes longer than they make it out. What helped me is to do a sort of CBT journal. And when a irrational thought reoccurred I could re-read how I already worked through it.
There isn’t really any quick fixed for this.
Our brain builts stronger pathways for information we use a lot. Sadly, in a way obsessive, repetitive thoughts get registered as important. So it’s vital to rethink/reframe repetitively too.
Eventually the brain will stop going down the used path and that pathway will wither.
For books more general, I guess Norman Doige The Brain Changes Itself, on neuroplasticity.
There are several CBT apps available, sadly the one I used doesn’t seem to be available anymore. But I use a journal these days. I downloaded and printed out a list of common thought distortions/fallacies and work through anxious and worrying thoughts by “writing it through”, I find that it works better than online or “thinking it through”.
Another thing that CBT as I experienced hasn’t covered are that sometimes it helps allowing the anxious thoughts to be true. Like for example “if I do this that will happen”, it’s helpful to think how you would work through the problem if worst comes to worse, so you kind of have a library of solutions your mind can fall back on.
Obviously, I don’t know what kind of thoughts plague you, but I do hope you find relief.
ACT by Russ Harris
Suzuki, *Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind*.
Along with CBT, there’s a subcategory called Dialectal Behavioral Therapy. This may also help. Worksheets are going to probably be more helpful than a book because you can actively practice change.