Automatic Negative Thoughts Examples: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Automatic Negative Thoughts Examples, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
Practices that may help
- Overgeneralization
Draw a sweeping conclusion from one or a few negative events.
Cognitive Distortions: The Thinking Errors Behind Anxiety and Depression - Cognitive restructuring
Identify an automatic thought, test it against evidence, and replace it with a more accurate one.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Made Practical - Catch automatic thoughts in the moment
Name the specific thought that arose, not just the feeling it created.
Cognitive Restructuring: The CBT Method for Changing Unhelpful Thoughts - Catch the automatic thought
Notice the instant, unexamined interpretation that fired before you reframe anything.
Cognitive Reframing, Made Practical - Spotting cognitive distortions
Learn the recurring thinking errors — catastrophizing, all-or-nothing, mind-reading — to label them on sight.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Made Practical - Examine the evidence for and against
Test the thought like a hypothesis: what actually supports it, and what argues against it?
Cognitive Reframing, Made Practical - Name the cognitive distortion
Match the thought to a known thinking trap — catastrophizing, mind-reading, all-or-nothing.
Cognitive Reframing, Made Practical - Examine the evidence for and against the hot thought
List what genuinely supports the thought and what genuinely contradicts it — as if building a case in court.
The Thought Record: CBT’s Core Self-Examination Tool - Mind-reading
Assume you know what others are thinking, usually negatively, without evidence.
Cognitive Distortions: The Thinking Errors Behind Anxiety and Depression - Cognitive Distortions: The Thinking Errors Behind Anxiety and Depression
Cognitive distortions are systematic patterns of inaccurate thinking that maintain anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem — patterns like all-or-nothing thinking, catastrophizing, and mind-reading. David Burns popularized a list of ten common distortions in "Feeling Good," drawing on Aaron Beck’s cognitive therapy. The core claim — that these thought patterns are identifiable, learnable, and correctable through deliberate examination — is well supported by CBT’s strong evidence base.
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- One thing goes wrong and it instantly becomes a life sentence
- The instant something goes a little wrong my mind snaps to the worst read of it as if it’s just plainly true
- I’m sitting down ready to actually work on this, but when I go to write down what I was thinking all I’ve got is “I felt awful”
- My mood drops out of nowhere and I just feel awful, but if you asked me what I was actually thinking I couldn’t tell you
- One bad moment and I’m off
Related concerns
- Automatic Negative Thoughts
Identify an automatic thought, test it against evidence, and replace it with a more accurate one.
Cognitive restructuring
- Cognitive Distortions
Cognitive distortions are systematic patterns of inaccurate thinking that maintain anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem — patterns like all-or-nothing thinking, catastrophizing, and mind-reading. David Burns popularized a list of ten common distortions in "Feeling Good," drawing on Aaron Beck’s cognitive therapy. The core claim — that these thought patterns are identifiable, learnable, and correctable through deliberate examination — is well supported by CBT’s strong evidence base.
- Cognitive Distortions In Relationships
Cognitive distortions are systematic patterns of inaccurate thinking that maintain anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem — patterns like all-or-nothing thinking, catastrophizing, and mind-reading. David Burns popularized a list of ten common distortions in "Feeling Good," drawing on Aaron Beck’s cognitive therapy. The core claim — that these thought patterns are identifiable, learnable, and correctable through deliberate examination — is well supported by CBT’s strong evidence base.
- Cognitive Thinking Errors
Cognitive distortions are systematic patterns of inaccurate thinking that maintain anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem — patterns like all-or-nothing thinking, catastrophizing, and mind-reading. David Burns popularized a list of ten common distortions in "Feeling Good," drawing on Aaron Beck’s cognitive therapy. The core claim — that these thought patterns are identifiable, learnable, and correctable through deliberate examination — is well supported by CBT’s strong evidence base.
- Common Mistakes In Thinking
Learn the recurring thinking errors — catastrophizing, all-or-nothing, mind-reading — to label them on sight.
Spotting cognitive distortions
- Examples Of Thought Distortions
Cognitive distortions are systematic patterns of inaccurate thinking that maintain anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem — patterns like all-or-nothing thinking, catastrophizing, and mind-reading. David Burns popularized a list of ten common distortions in "Feeling Good," drawing on Aaron Beck’s cognitive therapy. The core claim — that these thought patterns are identifiable, learnable, and correctable through deliberate examination — is well supported by CBT’s strong evidence base.
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