BREAKING THE FEAR CIRCUIT
Too often, our thoughts spiral into the gap between our anxieties about the future and the reality of our circumstances. As a therapist, here's how I help clients stop their fears from becoming self-fulfilling prophecies.
By Jennifer Guttman
I'm so distracted at work," Jesse lamented one day. He was slumped on my couch, looking utterly defeated. "I can't focus on anything."
"Why?" I asked.
"We're in a recession!
Have you heard about all the layoffs at startups and tech companies lately?"
"You're worried that will happen to your company?" I asked.
"In the last recession I had to lay off 25% of my workforce, and the business never recovered profitability. This is absolutely happening to me all over again."
As a psychologist, I often watch my clients grapple with fear. In cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), we teach that thinking errors happen in the gaps between a fear-driven thought about a situation and the reality of the situation itself. These thoughts project a negative, inaccurate account that the person believes is true. The core of CBT is a set of techniques-reality checks, if you will-to correct these thinking errors as they arise. Here are two major types of thinking errors to look out for.
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