More Transforming Negative Self-Talk: Practical, Effective Exercises

“I can’t believe you just did that. How could you have said something so stupid? I mean, seriously, how could you be such an idiot? Where did you graduate from again? Did you graduate? You shouldn’t be here. You’re dangerous.” It was my second shift as an intern in the ER and I was telling my attending about the most recent case I had seen, a young man with chest pain, so that we could come up with a treatment plan. I had suggested he might have viral pericarditis, an inflammation of the tissues surrounding the heart. The attending had raised his eyebrows slightly. “Mmm, probably not,” he said, explaining why he considered it unlikely. His response was calm, reasoned, non-judgmental — he had years of experience and I had med school plus a mere 12 hours of practice. No, the diatribe against me was of my own making. That demeaning voice was the one in my head. It can take over when I am at my most vulnerable, and it can occupy too much of my mind’s real estate as, instead of moving on, I continue to stew over a situation. If you deal with your own negative voice, you know how distracting and downright debilitating it can be. In his latest book, More Transforming Negative Self-Talk: Practical, Effective Exercises, Steve Andreas offers a distinct approach to it. Andreas, a psychotherapist who has published a number of books and has expertise in many areas including neurolinguistic programming, provides a follow-up to his previous book on the subject, Tra...
Source: Psych Central - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Anxiety Book Reviews General Memory and Perception Self-Esteem Self-Help Neuro Linguistic Programming Nlp Steve Andreas transforming negative self-talk Source Type: news