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Identifying Your Core Beliefs

SESSION 6 OF 6

Duration 14mins 49secs

In this session, Dr Lauren Axelsen investigates core beliefs, outlining what the common core beliefs in depression are, and how to identify what ours might be. She explains that there are confirmed negative beliefs which come with depression and they’re very hard to shift. We all have core beliefs about ourselves, they can be positive but when we are depressed they tend to be negative.

Dr Axelsen advises we go through the first two levels of thought featured in previous sessions, Capturing Your Automatic Thoughtsand Behavioural Experiment, to ensure we have the knowledge and skills to confront our core beliefs.

ALL SESSIONS IN THIS MODULE: Depression Relief Therapy 2

01

Challenging Your Automatic Thoughts

In this session, Dr Lauren Axelsen shows us how to challenge our automatic thoughts. When we are depressed our thoughts can be very distressing and confronting, you might have noticed how much of a bully you can be to yourself. Dr Axelsen offers us an effective way to develop an alternative thought based on evidence....

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02

Grief and Guilt

In this session, Dr Lauren Axelsen investigates the complications with grief and guilt, which can send us into a depressive cycle. She describes the difference between guilt and depression and how our self-blame can be a precursor for depression. Dr Axelsen shows us how to use a thought challenging process called ‘responsibility reattribution’ to shift...

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03

Unhelpful Predictions

In this session, Dr Lauren Axelsen investigates the deeper levels of thought in terms of our assumptions and rules. Following on from the earlier session in Challenging Your Automatic Thoughts, Dr Axelsen assesses the rationality of assumptions and rules that guide our behaviour, and can maintain our depression. Dr Axelsen shows us how to challenge...

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04

Perpetuating Behaviour

In this session, Dr Lauren Axelsen investigates the perpetuating behaviours that we often use as copying strategies to protect ourselves from depression and anxiety. When we are feeling distressed or upset, we often feel like we need to protect ourselves. Perpetuating behaviours and the subtler ‘safety’ behaviours, are designed to keep us safe in the...

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05

Behavioural Experiment

In this session, Dr Lauren Axelsen shows us how to challenge our stubborn assumptions and rules by using a behavioural experiment. She walks us through a step-by-step process to design a good experiment to test our beliefs that we are having difficulty shifting.

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Identifying Your Core Beliefs « you are here

In this session, Dr Lauren Axelsen investigates core beliefs, outlining what the common core beliefs in depression are, and how to identify what ours might be. She explains that there are confirmed negative beliefs which come with depression and they're very hard to shift. We all have core beliefs about ourselves, they can be positive...

ALL MODULES IN THIS SERIES

Module One: 6 sessions

Depression Relief Therapy 1

with Dr Lauren Axelsen

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Module Two: 6 Sessions

Depression Relief Therapy 2

with Dr Lauren Axelsen

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Module Three: 6 Sessions

Depression Relief Therapy 3

with Dr Lauren Axelsen

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