Peter Attia· MD
so you take a thought and on the classic classic thought record tool you'll have patients write down the thought write down how they feel rate their feelings from say 0 to 90% And then we have them write down what's the evidence for this thought like if you had to go to court right now and there was a judge and a jury and what have you and you had to present evidence for your thought what would you be able to present evidence for a thought is not another thought it's not a belief it's evidence last time I slept 6 hours I got a worse grade on a test or something right that would be evidence you got worst SC test but then we we look at all the evidence for a thought we look at all the evidence against a thought like oh last time you didn't sleep so well you didn't get fired you still did fine in school whatever the thing and then we create a balanced thought which is okay even though I'm not going to be as well rested I'll still still get through this day right then we have people rate their emotions rate how much they believe this new thought this whole song and dance right this is the cognitive component and that's kind of the Bedrock of so much of cognitive therapy