Saying cognitive statments in a safe place?
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LoyalXenite
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Its meant to be part of training your brain to respond positively or in a controlled manner
Moses199
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What has worked for you? saying rational statements off or in situations
BlueDays
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If you want to keep your family/friends/work colleagues wanting to be around you, then you would have to make sure you say in the situation the rational things you need to say, that you know won't just add fuel to the flames, type comments.
I always assumed that therapists tell you to say out loud or write down, what you would have said in that situation, if you did not have to "hold your tongue" so to speak, later on because that helps you to get "it" out of your system.
So you say out loud or write down all the angry, frustrated, rude, provocative, accusing, attacking or patronising statements you were dying to say during the situation, later on, so those feelings you could not get out at the time are supposedly "released" from your mind and therefore, do not keep churning over and over, bubbling up until you explode.
That is how I thought that technique was supposed to work anyway.
LoyalXenite
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Its never worked for me
Sacrament
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The point of those types of statements is to trying rational thoughts into your irrational thought-infused brain, especially in stressful situations. So, they can and will work depending on how you use them (ie, don't expect them to fix everything, only to soften the blow of anxiety).