It’s hard to notice our positive attributes at times when we keep focusing on our negative ones. It’s important to keep in mind not to resist or ignore the negative thoughts about yourself, though tempting, because resisting or ignoring them can actually make them worse (Wegner, 1994). What you want to do instead is to …
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Depression is rampant. It is one of the most common mental illnesses in the United States (Major Depression, 2022). In 2022, about 50 million American adults suffer from a mental illness with 3.7 million more American youths (ages 12-17) suffering from at least one major depressive episode (Reinert, M., Nguyen, T., Fritze, D., 2021). That’s about …
It’s important to recognize limiting beliefs or else they become a self-fulfilling prophecy; “Beliefs impact perception and influence feelings and feelings motivate actions or lack of actions and actions produce the results and consequences that follow. Self-limiting beliefs keep you in repetitive learning cycles, until you change the meaning of experience at the belief level” …