Contrary to popular belief that issues and feelings need to be addressed, new research suggests keeping them out of mind could be beneficial.
New research suggests that the accepted narrative of talking about and disentangling one’s issues may not be the only effective approach.
“The whole point of psychotherapy is to dredge up these thoughts so one can deal with them and rob them of their power. We’ve been told that suppressing thoughts is intrinsically ineffective and that it actually causes people to think the thought more.” Together with Dr Zulkayda Mamat, also affiliated with the University of Cambridge, he set out to determine whether it was possible to train people to suppress their negative thoughts.
The participants were then asked to rate each scenario according to a number of criteria – including the associated level of anxiety or happiness, or frequency of thought and emotional intensity – and then self-assess their mental health via a questionnaire. This enabled the researchers to detect, for example, those suffering from depression or post-traumatic stress.
Published in the journal “Science Advances”, this work showed that the events the participants tried to ignore were less present in their thoughts and preoccupied them much less, whether immediately after the experiment or three months later.
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