Rather than recalling and focusing on fearful thoughts, it might sometimes be useful to avoid these imaginings to boost our well-being and avoid symptoms of mental health conditions like depression or PTSD
at the University of Cambridge have found that some forms of thought suppression can actually be helpful.
The researchers recruited 120 people and asked them to imagine future scenarios that might occur in their lives over the next two years. The participants weren’t asked whether they had been diagnosed with any mental health conditions,Each participant came up with 20 negative scenarios they were afraid of, such as losing a loved one, and 36 neutral scenarios such as hanging out the laundry. For each scenario, participants had to provide a cue word that could be used to evoke the thought.
Over Zoom, Mamat and Anderson trained 61 of the participants to suppress negative thoughts, and 59 of them to suppress neutral thoughts, for 20 minutes per day over three days. During each training session, the researchers showed participants the cue word to trigger a thought about a scenario, and then asked them to block the event out of their minds, before presenting a new cue.
Participants also self-reported the extent to which they had symptoms related to depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety in surveys before and after the training.
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