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Ego States Theory and Therapy

Aron Beck, par exemple, un pionnier en thérapie cognitive, a découvert que dans la plupart des cas de dépression, les gens ont une série de faux scénarios ou de fausses croyances et qu'ils répètent constamment ces mythes comme s'ils étaient vrais. Lorsque nous sommes déprimé, nous nous parlons à nous-même de manière non véridique.

This in turn creates another feedback loop in which you lose your confidence and feel incapable of doing certain things.

First, you learn to recognize the automatic thoughts flitting through your consciousness at the times you feel worst.

Psychologists have identified three types of dysfunctional belief important in the development of OCD. The first is an inflated sense of threat and personal responsibility. The second is perfectionism and intolerance of uncertainty. The third is a belief in the over-importance of thoughts and the need to control them.

People with early childhood struggles which impact their attachment style rarely seem to recover on their own. Instead, their lives seem to follow a trajectory passing through anxiety into depression, and possibly later into panic attacks, trauma, or other mental health issues.

Another cognitive distortion characteristic of depression is dichotomous thinking, or viewing events or people in all-or-nothing terms.