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What are self-destructive beliefs (SDBs)?

  • Beliefs that people use to function in everyday life
  • All of the above (correct)
  • Beliefs that people hold on to for emotional comfort
  • Beliefs that people invent or adopt during an unhealthy childhood experience

    • Why do people hold on to self-destructive beliefs?

  • To impress others
  • To avoid emotional pain
  • To make their lives more complicated
  • To create a sense of security and emotional comfort (correct)

    • What can help build awareness of patterns of thought and behaviour?

  • Listening to music
  • Playing video games
  • Mindfulness (correct)
  • Watching TV

    • What is the benefit of noticing your beliefs in real-time?

    <p>Having more power to live differently, make different choices, choose different paths, and have different reactions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the connection between Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and self-destructive beliefs?

    <p>People with BPD may depend upon several self-destructive beliefs to function</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are emotional avoidance behaviours?

    <p>Behaviours that help people avoid emotional pain</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why are people often confused about why their lives aren’t going well?

    <p>Lack of awareness and understanding of self-destructive beliefs and associated emotional avoidance behaviours</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Do self-destructive beliefs work to produce temporary relief/ contentment?

    <p>Eventually, they do not work even to produce temporary relief/ contentment</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What can help you understand which kinds of feelings you need to practice identifying, tolerating, working through, managing, etc.?

    <p>Knowing which type of beliefs you regularly turn to</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the reason why humans often remain dependent on self-destructive beliefs?

    <p>To function in everyday life in the absence of a consistently warm and constructive attachment experience</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Can people suffer from more than one type of self-destructive belief simultaneously?

    <p>Yes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Do emotional avoidance behaviours create more consequences than relief?

    <p>Yes, they create more consequences than relief</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Understanding Self-Destructive Beliefs and Patterns of Thought and Behavior

    • Self-destructive beliefs (SDBs) can be invented or adopted by a person going through an unhealthy childhood experience or other abusive experiences later in life.
    • People may suffer from more than one type of self-destructive belief simultaneously.
    • The main reason for holding on to self-destructive beliefs is to create a sense of security and emotional comfort.
    • Humans often remain dependent on these beliefs to function in everyday life in the absence of a consistently warm and constructive attachment experience.
    • Knowing which type of beliefs you regularly turn to can help you understand which kinds of feelings you need to practice identifying, tolerating, working through, managing, etc.
    • Activities that nurture self-discovery and self-awareness (e.g., mindfulness) can help build awareness of patterns of thought and behaviour that tend to make life more complicated than necessary.
    • When you start noticing your beliefs in real-time as life unfolds, you begin to have more power to live differently, make different choices, choose different paths, and have different reactions.
    • People with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) may depend upon several self-destructive beliefs to function.
    • The most common self-destructive beliefs for people with BPD are “achievement,” “demandingness,” and “submissiveness.”
    • Emotional avoidance behaviours connected to beliefs get so interwoven into our everyday life that we don’t even notice they are there.
    • Lack of awareness and understanding is why people are often confused about why their lives aren’t going well or why they aren’t getting the results they had hoped for in relationships and other areas of life.
    • Self-destructive beliefs (plus all associated emotional avoidance behaviours) do not work even to produce temporary relief/ contentment, and the avoidance behaviours themselves create more consequences than relief.

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