Intrusive Thoughts and Overthinking
Presenter:
Therapy in a Nutshell
Time:
20:06
Summary
Do you ever find yourself overthinking a situation or battling intrusive thoughts? This video will teach you the skill of cognitive defusion, which will help you separate yourself from your thoughts so that you can look at them rather than through them.
Transcript
You have a million thoughts a day, but you don't even notice them. You just believe them. We swim through our thoughts like a fish swims through water. We don't even notice that the way we think colors our view of the world. Or sometimes we do notice, right? Sometimes we notice thoughts we don't like, and then we don't know what to do with them. Sometimes you fight them, or you struggle against them.
But you know, if, for example, you think, Oh, I'm such an idiot, and then you tell yourself, no, I'm the smartest person in the world. That doesn't necessarily feel any better. So sometimes you get stuck in an endless loop of overthinking, obsessively struggling against a thought, or obsessively worrying about something, but that's not any better, because struggle steals your attention and your energy. Our thoughts are like glasses. They are the lens through which we see the world. If you think the world is a terrible, mean place, that's what you'll see. If you think people are inherently good, that's what you'll find in this video. You're going to learn how to get unstuck from your thoughts.