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Schemas are deeply ingrained emotional patterns that repeat throughout our lives sabotaging our attempts to reach our goals, dreams and live a fulfilling life. Identifying and reducing your schemas is the key to achieving lasting change.

  • 18 Schemas
    • 1 – 9
      • Emotional Deprivation
      • Abandonment
      • Mistrust & Abuse
      • Social Isolation
      • Defectiveness & Shame
      • Failure To Achieve
      • Dependency & Incompetence
      • Vulnerability to Harm
      • Enmeshment
    • 10 – 18
      • Subjugation
      • Self-Sacrifice
      • Emotional Inhibition
      • Unrelenting Standards
      • Entitlement & Grandiosity
      • Insufficient Limits & Self-Control
      • Approval Seeking
      • Negativity & Pessimism
      • Punitiveness
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Negativity & Pessimism

If you identify with 5 or more of these statements, the chances are you have this schema.

  • 1
    People have called me pessimistic but I believe I am a realist.
  • 2
    I find it hard to be happy as I know something bad will eventually happen.
  • 3
    You can't be too careful as things generally tend to go wrong.
  • 4
    It's much better to expect the worst than to be constantly disappointed.
  • 5
    People have said that I am a worrier.
  • 6
    I tend to think about the dark side of life a lot.
  • 7
    I am rarely spontaneous and tend to be a creature of habit and routine.
  • 8
    I find it really difficult to make decisions because a wrong choice could lead to disaster.
  • 9
     People often tell me to 'cheer up" or 'look on the bright side'.
  • 10
    I find myself obsessively planning to ensure mistakes don't happen.

You can find out more about this schema in the video above.

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