What are the things you think and feel affects your everyday life?
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“Our entire belief system is formed from a lifetime of experiences and memories. These influence our actions every single day,” says Latha Girish, a clinical psychologist with Westminster Healthcare, in Chennai. She says that our unconscious mind plays an important role in shaping our behaviour and attitude, because it may contain repressed feelings and hidden memories.
“To put it simply, what we think is likely to affect how we act and feel, what we feel influences how we think and what we do, and what we do has an impact on how we think and feel, thereby creating an interdependent relationship,” says Dr Samir Parikh, consultant psychiatrist and director, Department of Mental Health & Behavioral Science, Fortis Healthcare, Delhi.
A lot of the thoughts and beliefs we have are negative in nature. Thought distortions are more common than we imagine. They can be at the root of mental disorders like depression or anxiety. They may also cause relationship trouble. While many of us indulge in what are called cognitive distortions — irrational thought processes — it’s the excessiveness that may, over time, modify our belief systems and attitudes towards ourselves and people around us, says Dr Parikh. Here are a few that people indulge in.