Overcoming Thoughts

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In this activity, you will learn skills to overcome a thought you struggle with. With practice, you can integrate these skills into your life, helping you gain greater control over your thoughts and actions.

Work on other common thoughts. Click on the thought you’d like to work on below to start.

What Others Are Saying

  1. Relationship
  2. school ad loneliness
  3. I feel overwhelmed with school, and I feel like a failure for being incapable of completing the realistic expectations/goals I set for myself that day. I feel like I take forever/way too long to complete tasks for school when they shouldn't. For example, today I told needed to write my article (originally due today) and prepare my faux-direct for tomorrow morning's evaluation. It is now 20h44 and I have completed none of those two basic tasks. No matter where I am, I feel incapable on focusing on the job in front of me, and let myself get lost in rabbit-holes to avoid my school work. But it's not always that I feel this crappy. Plus, I never ever submit work late, I generally force myself to hand it in on time, even if it means a lack of sleep or nutrition. I wish I could be efficient and not dumb like everybody else, aka a normal person.
  4. That my friends are aren’t good friends and they don’t need me as much as I need them.
  5. Frustración, Desánimo
  6. Inutil , fea , estupida , no sirve para nada
  7. I feel like no matter how much i work hard i will always be in the same place. Everyone will move on and i will remain here.
  8. I lost my best friend my love of my life.. an can't seem to get over it an heere I am alone typing on this phone ..stupid
  9. Focusing on myself
  10. How to save myself from negative thought and killing and being happy and hope.
  11. I overshared
  12. My self esteem and ability to focus
  13. Hopeless
  14. Am I enough?
  15. what's the point, Im old
  16. Tryin not to punch everyone I past today!
  17. I don't have enough time in the day to do the things I need to do.
  18. Suicide
  19. not being good enough
  20. Am i that unworthy that he cheated on me will he feel guilty will he come back will we be back together
  21. i have noticed that when i come across a difficult word that i know the meaning of i tend to explain it to myself
  22. why do i feel angry all the time
  23. Self harm
  24. Worry about how someone else will react to a negative outcome.
  25. suicide of family
  26. No sexual activity in 3 decades
  27. I'm ready to die and if I dropped dead right now I wouldn't care
  28. Loniless and no friends
  29. That I might not have submitted my exam
  30. Suicide
  31. here are my thoughts: I'm a failure, I'm useless, no one cares for me, i will never accomplish anything, (dark) thoughts, emotional abuse, isolation abuse, self harm, not good enough, sick of life, trust issues, bipolar disorder. adhd, self esteem and love issues, constantly staying up late, drinking.
  32. My friends don’t want to be my friends
  33. my mother bieng manipulated into going against me constantly
  34. Life
  35. failure
  36. The thought of my daughter being sexually abused.
  37. Drugs and mental health issues
  38. My drug problems and mental health issues
  39. I read from 2 websites at work today that made my current state worse. It feels like I'm regressing back to my old ways and it feels as if I have trapped anxiety and/or emotions from reading them. One website was about smiling depression, specifically the part that said, "It's important to find ways to reach the point where you don't need to force out a smile, but so it comes naturally and comfortably," the other was 7 signs about spiritual transformations, specifically the part that said, "Let your brain do it's thing." I'm having a lot of trouble being the real me. I will go to God and trust in Him.
  40. I'm regressing back to my old ways and it's bad. So much has happened since winter break. It's been getting worse, I've been going along with the lies that others tell me. I need to remember the truth behind all the things I know. I will ask God to heal me so I can remember who I am and the truth behind all the things I'm struggling with and all the things I think about, for a lack of better wording.
  41. I'm scared that I'm going to accidentally do something bad
  42. That my situation is neverending.
  43. My situation is neverending. And it'll happen again.
  44. I can't recognize the person I see in the mirror. I feel totally separated from it as an entity. Like I've conceptualized myself out of reality.
  45. I'm dealing with a very unhappy emotional marriage. Dealing with a spouse that I consider to have a drinking problem. Feeling lonely, very unhappy, lots of anxiety, dealing with getting older.
  46. Need to get into counseling before I lose my family
  47. That my abuser is due for parole in April and he's going to be even more pissed off at me
  48. my gf leaving, my friends hating me, my parents are disappointed, and being lonely forever
  49. Life,overthinking,trust issues,bipolar,dyslexic
  50. I am hyperfixated on my safety. Therefore, I am struggling with the thoughts that everybody is out to hurt me in some way. Those ways can include psychologically, emotionally, physically, etc. I also struggle with the thought of everyone hating me, that I am constantly doing something wrong, and that everybody thinks that I am a burden to them.
  51. I cant control my life.
  52. I'm unemployed so now I don't have income or health insurance and it's scary.
  53. Tablets
  54. I don't feel anything anymore
  55. Death
  56. I want to die
  57. I'm struggling of being ashamed of my face and skin color, I felt like I don't belonged in here in this world because everyone is judging me , am I difficult to be loved and accepted, I feel so terrible.
  58. I'm struggling of being ashamed of my face and skin color I felt like everyone is judging me and it's bothering for 4years and then
  59. I keep hearing these sounds that aren't really there. Before, I got irritated at certain constant sounds and it turned into anger. I asked God to heal me from them. Ever since winter break, it feels as if it's been getting worse, as if I'm hearing them even though they're not there. They hurt me. I tried to ask God to heal me so I don't go insane hearing those sounds today in the shower, but that's another thing. It feels like I've been going along with so many lies regarding sounds, getting irritated at sounds and the lies that my mind tells me that may come from the lies and manipulations that my parents tell me. They make my mental health worse and I've been suffering. I'm regressing back to my old ways before Discord. I'm having trouble even typing this and doing the things that I normally do to help, such as reading Bible devotional plans and looking up answers on the internet. Mom and Dad's lies have made me believe that everyone is against me. I'm thinking like the old me. I will ask God to heal me from it all. I've also been suffering from smiling depression ever since I listened to some Christian healing frequencies to get a break from the sounds. It didn't help. Then I talked to a co worker at work yesterday after that and it made my smiling depression worse. She did help me with the hurt my parents give me. I told her a bit about how they hurt me and my siblings. I will continue to trust in God and go to Him through it all. It's been very hard for me. He will heal me though.
  60. I'm afraid that my parents are narcissistic and are emotionally abusing me, my sister and my brother. I will focus on the thoughts though. I ha a very bad thought during the winter break that said, "The real, true authentic me is bad." My mind has been abusing me and I've been in a terrible pain since I've been around my parents. They've been hurting me. They're twisting the truth and I'm having trouble holding on to what is good. I will trust in God and Jesus through it all. I've been having a lot of trouble being the real me. I've been regressing back to my bad, old ways before Discord. I will ask God to heal me so that doesn't happen, so I can be the real, true me. My parents call me ungrateful. I will ask God to heal me from the hurt caused by emotional abuse.
  61. self harm
  62. Feeling like an empty shell
  63. Z željo pa smrti.
  64. What is going on in my mind
  65. depresion, ansiedad, traumas, miedos, inseguridades, drogas, esquizofrenia y demencia
  66. Loneliness, Worthlessness, N
  67. Being helpful for my spouse
  68. my friend is irrtating me all the time
  69. Can't sit still, and very sick to my stomach
  70. im confused about my gender and i think i might have ADHD
  71. Overwhelming thoughts, a struggle to not feel anxious about them 24/7 and voices in my head
  72. I'm not sure if dating my boyfriend is something that is benefitting me or will be good for me in the long run. Or if it will confirm one of my deepest fears in life.
  73. How to secure 90%+ in board
  74. life, I just got a boyfriend and now all his problems are mine. I can barely take care of myself and think his problems might kill me.
  75. suicide
  76. Suicide
  77. Why is my life so abnormal all the sudden
  78. The world is full of injustice. Its not just the way I want it to be. Peace everywhere. Love everywhere. No war. Freedom everywhere.
  79. I don't know if I matter at all.
  80. I am not qualified to teach the class I just accepted
  81. ترس لە نەخۆشی
  82. Querer morirme
  83. there’s no point in trying anymore.
  84. Anxiety and fell like I’m being lazy and disappointing people
  85. Everyone hates me. I'm just a tool they use when needed but when I need them, they go away. I loose my friends cuz other friends take them from me. Idk if my best friends are real. I saw this ,TT video about how if your friends cheat on their partners you shouldn't be friend's with them cuz that means they have no problem with hurting you too. And now I don't know if they hurt me on purpose or by accident
  86. Everything
  87. I don't have any close friends. And the "friends" that I do have only use me for ranting and relationship advice. I feel like I'm not really needed by anyone. They say that they all love and care about me, but none of them ever genuinely ask "hey are you okay?" The only reason why they stick around is because I'm too scared to express my true thoughts, so I just tell them whatever they want to hear. I'm somebody who listens rather than talks, so they think it's okay to rant to me about every little thing that doesn't go their way. And when I try to stand up for myself and say something like "I'm not in the mood right now" or "I don't want to talk right now" they blow up and act like they're the victim. They're just treating me like a therapist. I'm okay with being the therapist most of the time. I just wish that I had the courage to speak my own thoughts and feelings instead of wasting my energy blocking out everyone's constant complaining.
  88. I feel like nobody cares about me, even though I know that there are a lot of people who do care. I just feel like they aren't doing enough.
  89. I'M A PROBLEM AND NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
  90. Mental health and sick of living
  91. Grades
  92. My brain. It's been acting up and always thinks about suicidal thoughts.
  93. self harm
  94. Why can’t I be like other girls … why do I have to be so broken
  95. i want to kill myself
  96. I just want to concentrate in studies