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Four Key CBT Questions
People can use this exercise to understand the connection between life situations, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Awareness provides the positive opportunity to modify or change automatic negative thoughts and/or self-defeating behaviors.
Question 1: What Happened?
Describe a situation in the past month in which you had a strong emotional reaction.
Question 2: How Did You Feel?
Describe how you felt directly after the situation happened.
Question 3: What Did You Do?
Describe what you did or how you responded to the situation.
Question 4: What Were You Thinking?
Describe what you were thinking right after this situation.