Automatic thoughts

Children, adolescents, and adults alike have rapid thoughts throughout the day called automatic thoughts. They are always, constantly generated and they influence what a person does and how he/she feels. These thoughts express what a person thinks about himself, how he values what he does and what he expects in the future. These thoughts can be both positive and negative. Negative automatic thoughts can stop a person or prevent him from doing things. These negative automatic thoughts become useless and eventually the person finds himself in a negative trap. In order to identify these thoughts, it is necessary to use the so-called Thought Tracker. This article describes methods for detecting automatic thoughts.