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Twenty Questions To Help You Challenge Negative Thinking

This document provides 20 questions to help challenge negative thinking. The questions prompt self-reflection on assumptions, thinking errors, perfectionism, blame, personalization of events, focusing only on negatives, exaggerating risks and importance, assumptions of inability to change situations, and predicting futures instead of exploring possibilities. The overall goal is to identify and dispute irrational or unhelpful patterns of thinking.

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Twenty Questions To Help You Challenge Negative Thinking

This document provides 20 questions to help challenge negative thinking. The questions prompt self-reflection on assumptions, thinking errors, perfectionism, blame, personalization of events, focusing only on negatives, exaggerating risks and importance, assumptions of inability to change situations, and predicting futures instead of exploring possibilities. The overall goal is to identify and dispute irrational or unhelpful patterns of thinking.

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Twenty Questions to help you challenge negative thinking-

1) What is the evidence?


2) Am I jumping to conclusions?
3) What alternatives are there?
4) Am I assuming my view of things is the only one possible?
5) What is the effect of thinking the way I do?
6) What are the advantages and disadvantages of thinking this way?
7) Am I asking questions that have no answer?
8) What thinking errors am I making?
9) Am I condemning myself as a total person on the basis of a single event?
10) Am I expecting myself to be perfect?
11) Am I using double standard?
12) Am I blaming myself for something which is not really my fault?
13) Am I taking things personally which have little or nothing to do with
me ?
14) Am I only paying attention to the black side of things?
15) Am I overestimating the chances of a disaster?
16) Am I exaggerating the importance of events?
17) Am I fretting about the way things ought to be, instead of accepting
and dealing with them as they are?
18) Am I assuming I can do nothing to change my situation?
19) Am I predicting the future instead of experimenting with it?

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