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Filtering Out The Positives
Throughout my years of practicing I’ve seen that people who have depression and anxiety have a difficult time acknowledging the positive aspects of whatever they are going through. When someone filters out the positives, they focus on all the negative factors of a situation even when there are positive things that deserve recognition. It’s important to know that the positive aspects have meaning because when someone focuses on the negatives, they diminish the the positive. For example, the student with the 2.7 GPA may be highly critical of themselves for not having a 3.0 or 4.0 GPA but isn’t focusing on the fact that they aren’t on academic probation or that their GPA was lower at one point and that they were able to raise it. Or that a 2.7 GPA isn’t bad. The positive deserves more attention because I find that most of the time those thoughts are supported with facts!