Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy encourages people to act as a detective, looking for the thoughts that appear automatically, observing what they are saying, and being aware that they are only a mindset built with irrational beliefs that may be changed. According with this personal evaluation of the adversity we produce thoughts that may help us to overcome the situation or not.īeing addicted to the own thoughts is something that clients have to overcome by acquiring the ability to identify the content of their way of thinking, which is the first step for a cognitive change. What the ABC model explains is that what makes us feel in a certain way is not the circumstance itself but the way we think about it which is our perspective of the event. For example, according with this model a person who is involved in a process of divorce may feel depressed about it if the belief is “I shouldn’t be living this situation in my life”. In this model “A” stands for adversity, “C” stands for the emotional consequence, and “B” stands for the beliefs about it. These unhealthy emotions use to be the first reason for clients to start therapy “I feel depressed”, and the incapability to control their thoughts is the next difficulty they want to treat since they experience it as a sort of cognitive addiction.Īlbert Ellis the founder of Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy created the “ABC model” to explain how people disturb themselves. Whatever would be the issue underlying the demand for psychological help most people declare to be incapable to stop thinking in a limiting way that conducts them to feel unhealthy emotions. “I just can’t stop thinking this way about it” is a common lament in the psychologists’ office. In the context of psychotherapy there is a huge amount of people complaining about being addicted to their own thoughts.
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