Potentially, stress is something that threatens us all, the different events and conflicts of life can stress anyone, and if these events and conflicts accumulate, mental health problems can be important, memory and images of events mark and evoke pain and suffering in people. Lives.
But even if they can be overcome, these evoked images can produce tense situations that cause stress and anxiety. These images are like internal triggers, even in the absence of real stressors.
- It is important to be aware of the pitfalls on which we can fall.
- For this we see the most common cognitive distortions that can generate stress.
- We must be aware of these distortions to reshape the thought patterns that lead us to them.
We tend to believe that some of our thoughts are real because they have great strength, because they have been accepted by others, or because we have repeated them many times, but in reality thoughts are just thoughts and do not necessarily represent an objective reality. .
There is an element of subjective inclination that begins to work in these situations, when the person distorts reality and imagines himself in all kinds of scenarios related to the event, in this way perception can be responsible for the feelings of anxiety and insecurity of the person. It is therefore essential to verify reality before reaching conclusions and making assumptions about the situation.
When people begin to believe that all thoughts are true, simply because they manifest themselves in our imagination, face distorted thoughts, this irrational way of thinking arises because human beings tend to form opinions and make judgments about people, situations, and events. .
Again, subjective inclination can distort reality. When we base our opinions solely on what we think, we can fall into traps with this kind of distortion. Sometimes random thoughts cross our minds and plant irrational seeds.
When we start to believe that all thoughts are equally important, we can make a mistake. Some thoughts represent only our opinion or are the result of our particular assessment. Some of them may even be important, but others may not.
However, we often do not distinguish between important and irrelevant thoughts, and we come to a conclusion that causes us stress: we must be aware of thoughts that can be exaggerated and widespread.
Sometimes we imagine a threat in every situation and begin to believe in every thought that comes to mind. Not all thoughts are real; some thoughts suggest unnecessary threats. These are dysfunctional thoughts.
But the person who receives them tends to believe them and feel threatened, besides feeling stressed, we must be very careful with this tendency and we cannot give in to all the thoughts that arise in our minds.
Sometimes we can get caught up in a type of thinking that involves permanence, omnipresence, and personalization.
Can these traps cause immense stress to the person who believes the situation will last forever (distortion of permanence)?But in reality, few stressors last forever.
When a person tends to believe that the effects of stress are widespread and will affect all aspects of their life, they make a mistake in their thinking and need to reshape their thinking style.
Pessimistic people often make this generalization mistake and begin to think that the stress that affects them in a certain situation in their life, sooner or later, will end up affecting everything, but it doesn’t really happen.
It is possible to combat stress more effectively when we try to manage it by controlling our thoughts, not giving in to all the thoughts that come to mind in relation to a stressful situation.
Try not to distort your conclusions and reshape your thoughts from healthy functional patterns.