Overcoming Thoughts

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. My “self” is dying, about to fall into the bottomless pit that my inner world has become. I will be nothing.
  2. fear of the unknown
  3. I cannot learn to be happy by myself
  4. I will not be able to be an effective educator this year
  5. Dying
  6. Infidelidad, cuando me comparo con ellas no soy nada, en mi relación yo no importo, solo quiero estar bien... cuando pienso en la escuela no se que sucede en las clase ni tareas ni asistencias
  7. about my future, what if i fail?
  8. Feeling like I’m not good enough for a relationship
  9. I don't think much at all and when I do I struggle keeping said thoughts I loose track of everything unless it's written down.
  10. Bordem
  11. People hating me
  12. People hating me
  13. My mom doesn't understand my brothers going to college and I think she is being toxic and mean about it.
  14. I'm fighting for my family
  15. fear of unknown
  16. Suicide
  17. How am I going to get a job to support myself and my children when I have no skills or experience
  18. why im not doing something to help myself
  19. I’ve developed a pretty intense fear of either going crazy or changing as a person. I think is stems from a fear of losing my family or specifically my parents. My talk therapist says it’s an obsessive thought associated with OCD. When I try to explain it to people they either think I’m crazy or don’t understand. I’m honestly scared I’ve just lost my mind, or like my therapist says it’s just an obsession I need to cope with.
  20. Being useless
  21. I have these insecurities in my body, I also can't express myself, I am confused between the two people, I am sad, I felt pressured, I am scared to do whatever I want, I am ugly, I'm a sinner
  22. I can’t stop thinking
  23. My life.
  24. Apathy with everything
  25. unwanted thoughts
  26. I recently had a heartbreak. my fiance called off our wedding. he broke off the engagement with me leaving me into a hell hole. Right now am being haunted by all the good and bad memories about it and am myself in a very bad place right now.
  27. That I’ll never get a good job again
  28. I am scared about the new delta variant
  29. i am worthless
  30. I am fake
  31. I’m scared that something will happen to me in the future i can’t control.
  32. That I'm not good enough
  33. Self sabotage
  34. Why doesn't anyone see Karl for the POS he is?
  35. overthinking
  36. I want to die I want to leave
  37. Lots
  38. Hating myself
  39. Pain
  40. Loneliness
  41. Loneliness, suicide, purpose, motivation, happiness
  42. Everything
  43. Bisa belajar dan menjadi seorang yang produktif
  44. Failure
  45. Con el mido aque lleguen a matar a una persona cercana a mi
  46. Creating unrealistic expectations
  47. Anxiety
  48. I can't get this tension in my abdomen to go away. The pain makes me anxious. Or is it caused by anxiety.
  49. I am controlled by my mother and feel desperate. I want to get out of her control, but I also love her really much. It feels like hugging a cactus; it hurts me badly, mama. Everytime I walk past my mother, I am afraid that she might say something about my body, how fat I look like and how I should work out more. Everytime I got a grade that is not 100, say 90, she would ask me why I didn't try my best insteading of telling me that I did well. She never feels enough. But I got tired. All the drawings, the cards I drew for her when I was young, were in the trash can. I saw them, and I cried. I used my first salary to buy her hair accessories. Her response was: "They look ugly. They would make me look old. Get them back." I chose them carefully for hours, just to hear those hurtful lines. When I was young, I couldn't wear eye glasses even though I am short-sighted. It was because she says: "I don't want you to get eye surgeries like grandpa." But she didn't know my struggle. I asked for them several times since I couldn't see anything. I was desperate. I was tall, so I couldn't sit near the board. I could not see what the teacher wrote on the board, I couldn't understand anything. That situation continued until grade 10. I had to use my savings to buy glasses and hid them from her. But for some reasons I always lost them and had to get new ones. I didn't have the money to buy a decent glasses. I asked my friends for used eye frames since I could't afford them. Those were the days that I felt really desperate. Mama, do you ever love me?
  50. I don’t feel pretty.
  51. My friend doesn’t want to be my friend anymore
  52. I don’t feel pretty
  53. Do not really know. I just want to stop feeling anxiety and stress every day .
  54. I feel like my mother loves me when I am obedient and study well. Mama, do you really love me? When I was a kid, I saw a cartoon movie in which the boy drew a very simple figure of his mother and him holding hands. The mother then displayed that very childish drawing on her desk in the office. When I did the same thing, my mother says: "How can I display your ugly drawing on my desk?" It hurts me badly that I feel like I am stupid. Other kids can have hugs and wishes from their mothers when they go far from home or have some important competitions. However, my mother never says anything similar. When I was at the airport, my teary eyes looked at her, waiting for her wishes and warm hugs. Nothing happened. I was very disappointed. I didn't want to talk to her for several days. I could not do anything that my mother doesn't like. I have to wear the clothes that she wants me to wear, from the accessories to the whole clothes. I could not study what I want, as she says "It doesn't suit you. You won't be able to stay in the US." She wants me to study whatever she thinks is interesting, ignoring how I feel and my limited ability. Mama, I'm not a doll
  55. I suffered from body-shaming from my mother. I went to the beach yesterday and took some photos. Everyone else, including my friends and my family members, think that I looked very nice and slim. Only my mother thinks that I look fat and ugly. Her first reply when I sent the photos was: "Did you gain weight? Why did you wear some ugly clothes? Your thighs and arms look fat." I felt very discouraged. No matter how good I was or how beautiful I look, she still thinks that I am far worse than others. Why? She is my mother, the one who I loves the most, but she also hurts me badly. I don't really want to talk to her right now and I feel like I'm just an idiot in her eyes.
  56. My boyfriend is hurt or worse right now
  57. I got my financial aid. It increased by a bit. But still, my father has to pay a lot. I saw his gray hair, and I hear mama 's complaints about the financial situation. I want to have a break. I want to stop working. But I can't. What would they do if I don't help them? My friends are doing internships and research. They also earn a lot of money. Why don't I be braver? Why don't I be like them? If I earn nothing, I would feel like a loser in this life. Sometimes, I just want to quit everything. But would they laugh at me? What would they say about me? I had this glorious and beautiful image in their eyes, I cannot ruin it.
  58. I don't think my friend likes me anymore
  59. Worry
  60. I'm evil and judgmental
  61. One day, I fell into the darkness. I tried to find my way out of it but I can't. So, I stay and hoping that I'll find a way to get out from the darkness. After days, a light came. I was so happy that I even jumping overjoyed. Unfortunately, the light walk away, leaving me alone in the darkness. I tried to chase the light, but the light was so fast and it gone. Days later, the light came back. Again, the light left me. This often happens until one day, the light didn't come again. The light never show up again after that. I guess, I have to live in the darkness. I am belong to the darkness and the darkness locked me inside it. Hey, darkness! We can be friends forever!
  62. I'm trying to get out from the darkness but yet, I'm still in the darkness and feels like the darkness locked me inside it. I saw the lights after a few days I was in the darkness. But then, it's gone. Then, the lights came back and walk away again. This happen a lot and one day, the light didn't show up anymore. And it never came back. I guess, I belong in the darkness.
  63. Sensitiveness
  64. I'm scared for the future
  65. Overthinking
  66. That I’m some how letting my children down and I’m failing them in life. When I was working all the time I didn’t them as much and hardly had time. Now I am able to stay home and I feel horrible if I try to get away for a few hours.
  67. Going to heaven
  68. End friendship
  69. Hurting myself
  70. Failure in life, sucess, financial independence
  71. Work
  72. a really hard breakup
  73. I am not good enough and I can't succeed at anything
  74. Panic
  75. Panic
  76. I'm not happy. Kuch thik nahi lag raha h,sala zindagi mein kya chal raha h maalum nai. Actually I'm in a well to do college right now but due to the current situation living at my parents house and got nothing to do since one and a half year, having issues with family friends and feeling the lowest in my life right now. Nothing is interests me no one here I can share with anything. The whole world is toxic and everybody around me too. This is the worst. I know parents are with me and they can help me etc etc but this is not fulfilling right now the future is not visible to me anymore. I used to be a good student and I think I still am but the .ental condition is rigorous. I fell I am at the edge each and every second right now but can't act or I am the worst being around and I too know that no one is going to read this but at least I am communicating in a way.