
011: Negative and Positive Distortions (Part 2)
Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood Therapy
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Is Your Thoughts Create Your Emotion?
I don't know how to answer the question of where emotions come from because I think that science doesn't know an answer. There was a huge causal effect of negative thoughts on feelings just as the cognitive therapists have been claiming since ancient times. But there was also a reverse causal effect ofnegative emotions triggering more negative thoughts. So, and that's the emotional reasoning too, but it's also probably a neurologic basis that when you begin to get upset it probably fires up those neural circuits where your negative thoughts are created and triggered.
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