CBT TOOL · QUESTION THE THOUGHT

Socratic Questioning

That thought that keeps circling? You would never let a friend believe it. This asks it the plain questions it cannot survive.
CBT · Socratic Questioning

Socratic questioning, defined. Asking a hot thought the questions it cannot survive. Not arguing, not forcing a happy ending - just the plain questions you would ask a friend, until the thought tells you the truth.

Where the reps take you

Never a straight line. You catch some, you miss some - and you climb anyway.

21 days to rewire a thought.
21 weeks to rewire a life.

A thought that runs unquestioned feels like truth. Question it like you would for a friend - what would you tell them, what facts do not fit, is it a feeling or a fact. The thought tells you the truth under questioning.
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HOW TO QUESTION IT

The Three Moves

You would never let a friend get away with this thought. Do not let yours.

1 · Write the thought

Get the exact thought down, in its own words. You cannot question a thought you have not pinned to the page.

2 · Ask it the questions

Run the thought through the questions below. Answer honestly. The thought either holds up, or it starts to come apart - and usually it comes apart.

3 · Land the fairer thought

Write what is left after the questions - the thought that actually survives the cross-examination. Truer, not just nicer.

See it worked through first
Thought
I am a terrible caregiver.
Question it
If a friend said this, I would tell them they are exhausted, not terrible. A fact that does not fit: I have done this every day for two years. This is a feeling, not a fact - I feel it most when I am most tired.
What survives
I am not terrible. I am tired, and I have kept showing up for two years straight.

The thought could not survive three questions. What was left was the truth: tired, not terrible.

YOUR TURN

Question the Thought

Write the thought, answer the questions, and land what survives.

Cross-Examined
Thought
Question it

This is the work. The fairer thought is built from here.

Stuck? Ask these

These pry a thought open. Tap one to drop it in, then answer it.

What survives
Say it
Your statement builds itself here as you work down the record.
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The accuser speaks first and loudest. He just cannot survive being questioned. Bring his words into the light and they fall apart.

"In a lawsuit the first to speak seems right, until someone comes forward and questions them."

Proverbs 18:17
Why it works

Asking a thought hard questions pulls it up into the thinking part of the brain, where it can be weighed - instead of leaving it down in the alarm part, where it just runs. See the research.

A general mechanism, not a guarantee. This supports good care; it doesn’t replace it.