Negative Thinking - What it looks like and what you can do

If you think you will win, there are chances you can. If you think you will lose, you most likely will. Negative thoughts can take on a life of their own, interfere with our relationships with others and with our selves.

Depression and Anxiety puts a negative spin on everything, including
the way you see yourself and the way you experience the world around
you. Elements of this distorted state of being include:

Catastrophizing: You tend to make a molehill into a mountain.
Contemplating the worst possible scenarios, increases your stress and
anxiety.

Overgeneralizing: Viewing a negative event as part of an endless pattern of lifelong mistakes.

All-or-nothing thinking: This is the tendency to look at things in
extreme, black-and-white terms. Most of life happens in the gray area.

Assuming or mind-reading: Believing you know something to be true when in fact it may not be the truth at all.

Someone who has confidence and believes that she/ he can achieve
something in life will most likely become successful. Consider the
following, when working toward change:

What you can do - Replace negatives with positives
Indulging in activities that you enjoy or that make your laugh
Spend time with positive people
Successes/ Wins take seriously, Losses are something from which to learn.
Feeling loss consume your mind, try to think of those situations where success/ wins were all yours.
Catch yourself before your negative thinking gets out of control.

Negative Thinking&Physical Health
Researchers at the University of Kentucky found that patients who had
negative thinking patterns, such as thoughts about not being able to
justify their own existence, were at higher risk for developing
depression. Heart patients with depression have been shown to have more
complications, including a higher risk of death.