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How Negative Thoughts Come To Mind Amanda is dealing with what psychologists call Automatic Negative Thoughts or ANTs.

How Negative Thoughts Come to Mind Amanda is dealing with what psychologists call automatic negative thoughts, or ANTs.

Home Self How To Stop Yourself From Spiraling Into Negative Automatic Thoughts How I made it through my journey out of the void of tragedy, and you can, too.

Once you learn to recognize the negative soundtrack from your Tortoise Brain, you can begin the taming process. You can consciously tap into the large part of your “Primate” brain, the neo ...

Nancy Colier, author of the new book "Can't Stop Thinking," shares how people can liberate themselves from obsessive rumination.

She says it’s most important for her to be conscious of any negative self-talk during this time. “Putting my thoughts on a diet is being just really self aware at what I dwell on, and where I ...

The findings suggested that blocking out unwanted thoughts triggered rebound effects, making it harder to keep them at bay. Many people interpreted the results as support for the Freudian notion ...