Identifying your own safety behaviours
Take a moment to think about your problem and see whether you can compile a list of negative thoughts relating to it.
Looking at each thought in turn think about the ways in which it encourages you to behave. It might help to think about things that you would stop doing if your problem magically disappeared overnight.
Think about the potential problems that these behaviours might be making for you:
- Do they stop you from confronting your fears?
- How might they reinforce your negative beliefs?
- Do they prevent you from exposing yourself to evidence that might contradict or undermine your NATs?
- What effect do these behaviours have on other people?
- How do these behaviours leave you feeling (a) in the short term ...
Get Brilliant Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, 2nd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
