by Richard Amaral | Nov 4, 2023 | Anxiety, CBT, Mental Health, Mind-Body Health, Psychology, Thinking
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won’t come in. – Alan Alda We all make predictions and assumptions about many things in life. We make predictions about the weather or the...
by Richard Amaral | Mar 12, 2023 | CBT, Mental Health, Thinking
As I mentioned in my previous post, it’s normal to have the urge to sometimes fixate on the negative instead of the positive. It’s called negativity bias, and there are good reasons why we do this. You can read about these reasons by clicking here. But there...
by Richard Amaral | Nov 2, 2018 | Change, Uncategorized
For the next few weeks, I’ll be focusing on the relationship between your thoughts, behaviours, and feelings. These are the main aspects behind cognitive-behavioural therapy (or CBT). The power of your beliefs The cognitive model, which is at the foundation of CBT,...
by Richard Amaral | Oct 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
What is common amongst anxiety-based disorders (e.g., social anxiety, OCD, panic disorder) is that it’s often caused by distorted, negative, critical, and biased ways of thinking. To be more specific, when you are feeling anxious your emotions are being influenced by...
by Richard Amaral | Apr 24, 2013 | All Entries, Depression
One of the first theories that highlighted the relationship between thoughts and moods was cognitive theory, or CT. This theory was created by Dr. Aaron Beck back in the 1970’s and focused on how people could change how they felt. Beck noticed that all his depressed...