Relapse Prevention Program
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What Are Harmful Thoughts?
•All or nothing (polarized) thinking
–Everything’s Good
–Everything’s Bad
•Believing someone else is responsible for your actions
•Blaming others
•Catastrophizing
•Mind reading
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•Let’s add to this list
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This is a list of some of the responses that participants have offered:
Something bad will happen; Perfectionism; Hostility; Judging others;
Wanting to inappropriately touch people-; Blowing things out of proportion;
Projecting thoughts on others