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. I'm struggling with school
  2. death of a loved one
  3. I will die
  4. death of me and how it will effect the people i love
  5. well life is extremly exremly seeming rediculos to me i wander if siter ever saw my thoughts like the heck vampire in twilingt i would defnetly cut my thorought that would be worth dying would it?hhahahahah yeah your right my imginary friend i defenatly cant turt anyon okey know i know who you are your a deval your not giving me a ood advice i hate you ishall avoid you i sahhal live for the best if i die i will go stright to the helll Allah will punish me not tahnking for the life he gave but instead kill your self by yourself thats tragic.my parents will be embarssed ont the day of jugment i shall do good deads to make tham proud of me on thee day of jugmeant and i shall do me best to make them proud of me even in this world by achivin a first position in class,postin and me?ehhehehehhehehehehee thats a very good joke joke stoooooooooooooop it shut up your uth you shall not think adout it i have to make my taechers proud of me no matter what happens even if die well i think the sentence i just wrote was completely illogical see i am a very logical and rational persoanltythe INTJ one heheheheh i a good girl i am a very good girl and i nice girl i am very intellegent....heheheeheheheh
  6. Death
  7. I keep thinking about my parent dying even though I KNOW they are in good healthy and hes Okay .
  8. I'm wasting my time away
  9. Death of myself or a loved one
  10. Death Yhoughts
  11. Family and the way i have been treated . My mom has dis owned me. Told me to stay away
  12. I worry about everything
  13. Sleep
  14. If I can get a scholarship or work study in the field on my studies
  15. Thinking I’m going to die soon
  16. Death
  17. I'm unemployed so now I don't have income or health insurance and it's scary.
  18. I'm unemployed so now I don't have income or health insurance and it's scary.
  19. Comparing my current wife with my previous one who was mentally and verbally abusive.
  20. Wether i am being left out or not
  21. the thought of losing a loved one
  22. Death of a loved one
  23. emotions, frustration, mad, people, stress, hopeless, betrayed, i really wish i haad other poeples struggles and i really hate that my gray emtpy feeling is still here. im scared t wont ever go away
  24. Death
  25. Death of a parent
  26. Death
  27. Worrying about my husband and/or mother dying
  28. Partner dying
  29. Finding myself being.
  30. Death
  31. giving up
  32. selfharm,
  33. I am behind with work
  34. That i am gonna die or my friend is gonna die
  35. Thinking about death and purpose
  36. I am not who I want to be. I have a vision of the type of person I want to be and it feels impossible to achieve because I'm just so tired all the time. I don't feel supported by anyone. I want to ask for help but I don't know how anyone can. I feel lost and alone.
  37. Myself or my partner dying
  38. That I'm never gonna get this house put back together. I'm not making fast enough progress as i want to be and I'm frustrated.
  39. relationship
  40. worry about health
  41. Death
  42. I'm so tired but if I stop everything will catch up to me.
  43. I'm not good enough at health occ or calculus or anything, my friend hates me, my teacher thinks I hate her (even though I don't), I don't know if there's anything wrong with me or if I'm just complaining, I don't really want to do anything anymore (except maybe workout or watch Helluva Boss), and I just feel like shit in general
  44. Health anxiety physical symptoms heart related
  45. self harm
  46. Feeling hopeless
  47. Financial stability
  48. Bad thoughts, loneliness, and fear
  49. I got so much on my mind I can’t plan what to do next in my life and I can’t calm myself to strategize getting over this problem
  50. I’m not doing enough
  51. Worry about the health of my dog
  52. trapped
  53. Hopelessness
  54. I'm the reason for my uncles dissapearance
  55. Feeling useless, unloved, alone
  56. Worthlessness
  57. Remembering my traumas, feeling overwhelmed about many things and people
  58. Death
  59. Hating myself
  60. Fear of death
  61. I don't understand anything. I'm so depressed about anything. Everything concerns me. I get easily very emotional and furious sometimes
  62. depression
  63. study
  64. thoughts of my mom dying for no reason
  65. Anxiety
  66. Worries re family bproblem
  67. My teeth will never be natural. I fell down and broke them. Now they are fake. And they don’t feel right. It makes a big difference to me. I constantly feel the difference. It’s driving my crazy. I also think about suicide in detail almost every day, if not daily. I have lost all my money, friends, and can’t do my hobbies anymore. Life is dull and miserable. I’ve lost the spark. The magic of life is gone. I wish I could go back just a few months, or even years. I just wish things could be like they used to be.
  68. Life
  69. Loneliness will
  70. I think that underneath my positivity, I loath myself & im trying to find ways to identify/ illuminate the thoughts I suspect are currently invisible to me
  71. thinking about dying
  72. Am I perceiving reality correctly right now
  73. fear of developing schizophrenia
  74. How I am letting depression kick my ass.
  75. Trust
  76. Self worth
  77. Something bad is going to happen
  78. I felt very lonely. Although there a people around me but I don’t feel the there are so much unforeseen situations that I kept thinking of and I felt that one really cares
  79. That I am not “good” enough. My presence is more harmful to my family than my death would be.
  80. what happens when i die
  81. Guilt
  82. I don't remember what people's personality is like after not seeing them so i make one up and then get confused when they don't act like the personality i gave them
  83. School/ Licensure
  84. I always thought that people around me is constantly judging me