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Q: "How Do I Stop Negative Self-talk?"

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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Distancing Helps People Deal With Complex Problems

When we experince truss, we zoom in so narrowly on the emotional elements of the experience. But when we think about ourselves from that more objective standpoint, like we were thinking about someone else, we can often find solutions to our problems. That is what distancing helps people do. Another easy tool is something that goes by a few different names, mental time travel,. temporal distancing, or, in my mind, ethan's two a m chatter strategy.

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