Addiction to Automatic Negative Thoughts: A Perspective from Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy

Abstract

In the context of psychotherapy there is a huge amount of people complaining about being addicted to their own thoughts especially to automatic negative thoughts that are perceived by the person as a cognitive compulsion impossible to avoid Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy teaches how to detect this kind of mental habit and gives us strategies to overcome it by changing the irrational beliefs that are underlying it Observing disputing and changing these irrational beliefs using cognitive emotional and behavioral tactics allow people to live with serenity and to achieve cognitive emotional and behavioral goals