Thursday, August 2, 2012

All of Nothing Thinking

I tend to be susceptible to all or nothing thinking.  It's usually related to "never" having enough time to do something, spending "all" my free time doing things I have to do rather than what I want to do, or spending "all" my time on emergencies at work rather than the stuff I'd like to work on.  These thoughts go way back to my childhood.  I'm getting better at challenging them.  I can use the app to record actual events and how long they took (I think I reported on such an event in a previous blog entry).  I can collect data and generate self talk to remind myself of previous, contradicting experiences.  This helps.  I still get these all or nothing thoughts, but I can handle them better with the app.

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