In CBT we question our anxious and catastrophic thoughts and reframe them to make them more accurate and reflect reality better. This reduces anxiety and makes it less likely we start to panic.
The challenge is that when we’re having a panic attack it’s hard to think clearly enough to come up with different ways of looking at the situation. So it’s helpful to review the thoughts we tend to have while we’re calm, so we already have alternatives ready to go when we do start to panic.
Cognitive Restructuring and Reframing Thoughts in CBT
You’ll find the questions from the video in the worksheet below:
The next two posts look at more ways to modify our anxious thoughts. If you have any questions or comments, please leave them on the YouTube video page.