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If you happen to suffer or perhaps know someone who is suffering from some kind of very strong negative beliefs about themselves, others or life in general and also experiencing some durable self-defeating patterns, this piece might aid in the understanding of the reason why and how these things occur. Apart from deriving some knowledge on how such negative beliefs are formed, you would also find out how they automatically lead to negative thoughts, devastating feelings and a toxic behavior thereabout.
Strong negative beliefs about yourself and some kind of self-defeating patterns would mostly often result in a low self-esteem, depressive self sabotage a noticeable downward achievement and then some sort of serious psychological issues or illnesses. Below are some examples of these kind of negative core beliefs:
* *I am unlovable*
* *I am such a big failure*
* *People are so cruel*
* *No one cares about me*
* *Everybody would eventually leave me in the end*
* *My needs are never met*
all these starts with (maladaptive) schemas …
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Yourself and others as well as different situations and the world at large are viewed via schemas. Schemas are some sort of mental structures which provides a framework for representing some aspect of the world. Schemas not only aid you in organizing the vast majority of information in a manageable way, but they also provide the required lenses for the interpretation of reality. They could also be referred to as cognitive structures for screening, coding, and then evaluating every stimulus from the environment. People mostly make use of schemas to organize current knowledge, but then it also ends up providing a framework for further understanding, thus predicting what would or should happen in the future. Schemas have an influence on your attention and the absorption of knowledge and would also represent your core values and beliefs.
Schemas are like lines of code which run in through the brain, thus dishing out instructions to you on firstly, how to interpret things, feelings about different events, reaction and finally, also predict the future. They create feelings, thoughts and eventually leads you to end up with certain actions and decisions. That’s exactly why schemas are extremely powerful structures.
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