When Panic Attacks David Burn
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1. Cost Benefit Analysis
2. Revise the Belief
3. Put the Belief to the Test

How would I talk to a dear friend who had asimilar problem?
Role Play
The other person tells you about their problemexactly as if it was happening to them
You respond and try to figure out a solution

Examine the Evidence
Analyze the data available to you
What's the evidence for this claim
Experimental Technique
How can I test this?
Survey Based
Ask your friends/specific people about it

Self Monitoring
Count your ve thoughts daily
on a wrist counter
The act of counting will bring them down
Worry Breaks
Schedule time to feel anxious/depressed etc
Dont fight the feelings
GO all out
Paradoxically they allow you to feel relaxed atother times

Gradual
Step by Step
One small step at a time
Flooding
Expose yourself to it all at once
Distraction
For example
In an MRI machine
Distract yourself with counting your breaths
Meditation
Counting down

Smile and Hello
Smile and say hello to 10 strangers every day
Flirting
Rejection Practice
Try to accumulate as many rejections aspossible
Instead of trying to get a date, make it a goalto get rejected 10 times a week
It is paradoxical and very liberating
SelfDisclosure
Dont hide your feelings.
Disclose your feelings openly
The real problem is not the SHYNESS
But the SHAME you feel
Without the Shame, the shyness can be endearing
Vulnerable and charming
PARADOX
Acknowledging your feelings makes themdisappear
Fighting your feelings makes them persistinside of you

Pleasure Predicting
Schedule activities
Predict how satisfying and rewarding eachactivity will be from 0% to 100%
After completing, record howsatisfying/rewarding it really was
Notice the difference inprediction and reality
Little Steps
Break big tasks into small peices
Start on the smallest tasks

Think in shades of GRAY
Dont evaluate yourself as Winner/Looser
Process v/s Outcome
Evaluate yourself based on Process/effort
Don't evaluate yourself on the outcome
We control our effort Not the outcome
Gita
"Karmanye wadhikaraste maa faleshukadachana"
Semantic MEthod
Substitute kindler gentler language foremotionally colorful words
Don't should all over yourself
Only 3 valid uses of SHOULD in englishlanguage
MORAL
LEGAL
UNIVERSAL LAWS
Stop being ABSOLUTE about things
Get specific
Dont use vague generalizations
I am a failure
I always fail at this

Probably the MOST powerful Technique in thebook
When you resist It persists
When you accept it flows through you anddoesn't persist inside of you
The critics stop because there is nothing tofight against
Once you accept that
You are defective
You won't always be happy
That you will struggle
You get a sense of calm and joy
At a META level
You can abstract yourself from the mundane