Thought Feeling Behaviour CBT
Posted on May 19th, 2016
Thought Feeling Behaviour Connection CBT
Following on from my last blog: I have attached a video to explain in more detail the link between our thoughts, feelings and actions. Or in other words; what we call the thought feeling behaviour connection.
It works for both negative and positive examples. However, in therapy we usually focus on the negative examples as that is what is causing you most distress.
So in short, an event or something happens (trigger), we then have negative thoughts about this event (why do I have to put up with this? I have no control), these thoughts then create our feelings (sad), which then goes on to affect the way we behave (go home and lie in bed, don’t answer the phone). This cycle then goes around and around. The way to get off this cycle is to cut it at the thought process stage by ‘testing the evidence’. A psychologist can teach you how to do this, however the attached video will briefly introduce this concept.