CBT/TEA forms work for anxieties

[Beachgirl]

Back at you and of course I am still using my TEA forms

Ditto and keep up the good work and spirits too

[trackstar]

Back at you and of course I am still using my TEA forms

Great to hear and great job!

[Beachgirl]

Great to hear and great job!

Good to see you posting again Trackstar

[squirt]

Back at you and of course I am still using my TEA forms

Ditto from me to all of you as well

[trackstar]

Good to see you posting again Trackstar

Thx good to be back. How are you?

[tmays]

Welcome back trackstar, how's it goin?

[bhamlaxy]

This looks VERY interesting. Looks like a great exercise to promote the types of thought I have been working on. But I have a few questions. May buy the book but am wondering if I can do this without it.

Is this a good explanation of how to do them

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Can't post links yet, so just replace the stuff in < > with the appropriate character. Or it should be the first result when googling anxiety "TEA forms"

And I'm a bit confused about the exact setup. I feel like I could spend maybe 20 minutes and cover all the bad thoughts, explanations etc. So how do you repeat it every day? Do you kind of approach the same thoughts each day and reflect on if your responses should change? Is it repetitive in the sense that you often write the same thing?

[trackstar]

Welcome back trackstar, how's it goin?

Thanks. Doing great, you?

[trackstar]

And I'm a bit confused about the exact setup. I feel like I could spend maybe 20 minutes and cover all the bad thoughts, explanations etc. So how do you repeat it every day? Do you kind of approach the same thoughts each day and reflect on if your responses should change? Is it repetitive in the sense that you often write the same thing?

That link looks like they took it straight out of the Obitz book. It's a good overview of them but the examples in the book as well as the other exercises were helpful to me. Yes, a lot of the thoughts are repetitive when you start but you need to keep writing them and countering them and as you overcome them you are likely to uncover new and deeper thoughts that replace them on your road to recovery. Repetition is the key to replacing your old thinking habits with the new non anxiety causing ways of thinking.
Good luck!

[Beachgirl]

That link looks like they took it straight out of the Obitz book. It's a good overview of them but the examples in the book as well as the other exercises were helpful to me. Yes, a lot of the thoughts are repetitive when you start but you need to keep writing them and countering them and as you overcome them you are likely to uncover new and deeper thoughts that replace them on your road to recovery. Repetition is the key to replacing your old thinking habits with the new non anxiety causing ways of thinking.
Good luck!

I don't think I could have said it any better. Good answer!