Unhelpful Thinking Styles

Our brain always tries to interpret the surrounding we are in and makes it make sense of events that occur currently. And so sometimes it can also wander around and create thoughts that can be problematic. These thoughts have some pattern in which they are created and we are mostly not aware of.

Everyone has unique patterns that they predominantly battle with as we choose them up over the path of our lives and that they turn out to be a habit.

Unhelpful thinking patterns create the thoughts that make contributions to negative emotions and patterns in our minds.

They are cognitive distortions and could strengthen negative emotions.

Here are 15 styles of unhelpful thinking styles you can apprehend in your personal life.

1. Filtering - This thinking style focuses only on negative instances from the whole circumstances and also amplifies it to an extent that can cause trouble knowing or unknowingly.

2. Polarised thinking - Polarised thinking pattern is processing your thoughts to extreme thinking without any acknowledgement of central possibilities in between them.

3. Overgeneralisation - In this style, an individual takes few instances under consideration from which meaning is derived out of it that further are applied to everything else by that person.

4. Mind reading - In mind-reading, a person can conclude about certain things but that have no factual basis on them.

5. Catastrophizing - Here a person can be seen to have negative thinking with exaggerated and catastrophic consequences about any situation.

6. Blaming - Observations like constantly blaming others or oneself for some specific consequences are seen in this style.

Mindfulness  

Mindful techniques used are

Mindfulness can be useful at times as it helps people to achieve goals. However, when people are too conscious of what's happening around them, it becomes a problem. Information overwhelming takes place. Over here client needs to shrink their awareness and become mindful of one specific thing.
 
 
 

 Defence Mechanisms  

Positive intentions

Positive intentions are the whole lot that we do, our behaviours concerned in, is directly or indirectly offering with a few benefits. 

For instance an individual smoking a cigarette is a behaviour. The fine purpose in the back of it is to be relaxed. 

Working with Positive intentions

There are two methods to work with positive intentions

• Conscious level: 

In this technique, a client is requested to make a pros and cons listing of the behaviour they need to change. They could write down about changed and current behaviours. These written thoughts deliver insight into the positive intention. They can use techniques like metaphor and when the statement shows the presence of unwanted beliefs they can additionally work with beliefs if this is required withinside the case. 

• Unconscious level: 

Here in this method, the mental health professional asks the client’s unconscious thoughts to inform the positive intentions. The strategies used are finger signalling and body sensations. Once you acquire the feedback, you need to confirm if this is the unconscious response. Once done, you could lead them to give you an alternate plan of action for compensation. The unconscious mind, this way, is requested to contextualise the changed behaviour to satisfy positive intention without relying on original behaviour. The client realises that the behaviour is modified, later on, that is unconscious. This is a powerful and easy method. 

Positive intentions are required to work within instances of addiction, compulsion, relapses or behaviour especially with client desires to change.