Seeing and Stopping Automatic Negative Thoughts
Channel: Alex Zorach
Date: 26/09/2018

Automated negative thoughts (ANTs) are a key concept in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), especially to treat depression, and to a large degree other mental disorders as well. Through self-awareness exercises, including meditation, journaling, and tallying or counting, we can become more conscious of these thoughts, thus paving the road for overcoming them.

In this video I combine ideas from therapy (CBT), self-help books (esp. "Feeling Good" by David Burns), and my personal experiences, and I give some examples of how and when these thoughts come up, and talk about some of the techniques for becoming more aware of them.

Realizing that you are having these thoughts in the first place is often the hardest step, so that's what this video focuses on, but there's a lot more here and I hope to make more on this topic in the future!