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2. Suppressing negative thoughts may improve mental health ... - AOL

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   Blocking out negative thoughts may have benefits, a study found — a challenge to the notion that it's better to confront and talk through such thoughts than repress them.

3. Thought suppression - Wikipedia

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   Thought suppression is a ... depressed subjects were less likely to suppress negative, unwanted thoughts. ... that individuals distract themselves using environmental ...

4. Thought stopping - Wikipedia

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   In the treatment of phobias, thought stopping is used to distract patients by reducing occurrence of negative thoughts towards phobic stimulus. Participants with a phobia of spiders underwent either of two conditions: having a stimulus-relevant focused conversation or a stimulus-irrelevant distracting conversation with the experimenter while ...

5. Coping - Wikipedia

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   Unhealthy coping categories are negative self-talk, harmful activities (e.g., emotional eating, verbal or physical aggression, drugs such as alcohol, self-harm), social withdrawal, and suicidality. Unhealthy coping strategies are used when healthy coping strategies are overwhelmed, not in the absence of healthy coping strategies.

6. Delayed gratification - Wikipedia

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   Five-year-olds often choose instead to actively distract themselves or even use self-instructions to remind themselves of the contingency that waiting produces a reward of a greater value. Between 8 and 13 years old, children develop the cognitive ability to differentiate and employ abstract versus arousing thoughts in order to distract their ...

7. Emotional reasoning - Wikipedia

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   Cognitive therapy is a form of therapy that helps patients recognize their negative thought patterns about themselves and events to revise these thought patterns and change their behavior. [19] Cognitive-behavioral therapy helps individuals to perform well at cognitive tasks and to help them rethink their situation in a way that can benefit ...