{"id":37,"date":"2012-09-17T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T18:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cbt-examples.com\/mia\/cbt-post-partum-depression-blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2014-11-22T18:07:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T02:07:58","slug":"my-first-thought-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cbt-examples.com\/mia\/cbt-post-partum-depression-blog\/my-first-thought-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Thought Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the help of my therapist and after doing my first Stress Log exercise I learnt to distinguish feelings from negative thoughts.
\nNow I realize that all the negative things I was thinking about had a very deep impact on how depressed I felt right after Emma was born.
\nMy deep feeling of guilt had a lot to do with me thinking “I must be a very bad person not to be happy to have a daughter”. It is quite obvious that feeling guilty doesn’t come out of nowhere. It is not so obvious, though, that feeling guilty is not a direct consequence of the situation. Saying something like “this situation is very upsetting” would have made total sense to me before. Now I understand that there is a very important step between what happens and how I feel: my thinking.
\nSo when Emma was just born I felt very guilty because instead of feeling happy I found myself crying. “I must be a terrible person: I said to myself. If I believe I am a terrible person, well, no wonder I felt really sad and guilty.
\nMy therapist says that any negative thought that causes such negative emotions is worth challenging.
\nIn order to challenge the negative thoughts I identify in my Stress Log exercises, I use another tool called Thought Challenge<\/a>. Here is a picture of my first Thought Challenge exercise:<\/p>\n

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