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Topic Tuesday // Tues, 15 March, 7pm AEDT // Managing and changing your thoughts

NikNikSenior Contributor

Topic Tuesday // Tues, 15 March, 7pm AEDT // Managing and changing your thoughts

How does the way we think influence the way we feel?

With Brain Awareness Week coming up from 14-20 March, we decided to investigate what goes on in our minds, which we may or may not be aware of, and how this can contribute to mental illness.

Join us on Tuesday, 15 March at 7pm AEDT to be part of the conversation!

4 things you can do now:

1. Register as a member of the forums, which enables you to participate in the session

2. Hit the like button below to receive an email reminder on the night

3. Check out a blog about how our thinking patterns can maintain our distress

4. Leave a question below, if you can't make it tonight

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In response to: Topic Tuesday // Tues, 15 March, 7pm AEDT // Managing and changing your thoughts

ShimmerSenior Contributor

Re: Topic Tuesday // Tues, 15 March, 7pm AEDT // Managing and changing your thoughts

There is a particular model in CBT that I thought it would be helpful to focus on tonight called the ABC model.

The ABC model proposes that how we feel and act is not directly caused by the situation we are in – instead, our emotional and behavioural reactions are influenced by the automatic thoughts we have in response to situations. Unhelpful thinking styles can make us feel worse, and interfere with us doing things that we need and want to do in our lives. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

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CherryBombSenior Contributor

Re: Topic Tuesday // Tues, 15 March, 7pm AEDT // Managing and changing your thoughts

@Shimmer wrote:

Sure @CherryBomb. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, is an approach to understanding and treating mental illness which looks at how a person’s thoughts, feeling and behaviours interact, and how this can contribute to their distress.

@Shimmer can you tell us how do thinking patterns work and affect us?

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CherryBombSenior Contributor

Re: Topic Tuesday // Tues, 15 March, 7pm AEDT // Managing and changing your thoughts

@Polly48 wrote:
Sorry but I can't work out how to follow thread.

Hi @Polly48 to follow the thread, ensure that you refresh the page so that you can see any new posts coming in. Let me know if that does/doesn't help.

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Polly48Senior Contributor

Re: Topic Tuesday // Tues, 15 March, 7pm AEDT // Managing and changing your thoughts

Thanks

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Shaz51Senior Contributor

Re: Topic Tuesday // Tues, 15 March, 7pm AEDT // Managing and changing your thoughts

Hello @Shimmer

my Husband has MI and has cancelled all doctor`s cbt appoinments as he thinks he is too old to change , But he is happy for me to find more information about CBT that will help him at home

In response to: Re: Topic Tuesday // Tues, 15 March, 7pm AEDT // Managing and changing your thoughts

ShimmerSenior Contributor

Re: Topic Tuesday // Tues, 15 March, 7pm AEDT // Managing and changing your thoughts

There is a range of unhelpful thinking styles commonly associated with mental illness. Here are 10 common ones:

In response to: Re: Topic Tuesday // Tues, 15 March, 7pm AEDT // Managing and changing your thoughts

ShimmerSenior Contributor

Re: Topic Tuesday // Tues, 15 March, 7pm AEDT // Managing and changing your thoughts

Hi @Shaz51,

Thanks for joining us. I hope tonight is useful for you to learn more about CBT that might be good to share with your husband.

You mentioned he is happy to hear more about CBT to see if it will help him at home. Would you like to share some of the things he hopes it might help him with? Then we could consider together what might be useful.

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Polly48Senior Contributor

Re: Topic Tuesday // Tues, 15 March, 7pm AEDT // Managing and changing your thoughts

Am on a IPad and nowhere to refresh page need to get instant conversation please

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CherryBombSenior Contributor

Re: Topic Tuesday // Tues, 15 March, 7pm AEDT // Managing and changing your thoughts

Wow, that's interesting @Shimmer. I can relate to catastrophising, and 'all or nothing'.

Can others relate to any of these?

@Shaz51 hope you find tonight useful for your hubby.

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CherryBombSenior Contributor

Re: Topic Tuesday // Tues, 15 March, 7pm AEDT // Managing and changing your thoughts

@Polly48 wrote:

Am on a IPad and nowhere to refresh page need to get instant conversation please

Hi @Polly48,

I'm not on an ipad on myself. What server are you using - Chrome, Safari, Firefox? Depending on what server you use the refresh icon can be in different locations.

The other option is to press back, or to click the link at the top of the page where it reads

"special events >Re: Tipic Tuesday// Tuesd, 15 March, 7pm AEDT..." That should refresh the page, but remember to scroll down and navigate to the lastest page.

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