Student Support
Pip, Tyrone and Leah.
Stinky Thinking
Our Year 8's and 10’s recently attended Youth Mental Health First Aid. Well done to you all for joining in and participating in this course.
This article is following up on the course, and will have a look at how we can help ourselves and others when our minds are going down unhelpful pathways of thinking, aka Stinky Thinking.
One of the strategies that students learned was about reframing or rewording the language that we use in our negative thoughts. This table helps us look at Stinky Thinking in another way by challenging the assumption made when a text message is not replied to.
Stinky Thinking
| What is the evidence for this Stinky Thinking?
| What is a more helpful way to think about this?
| So does the evidence support the Stinky Thinking? |
| Wilson really hates me! He didn’t reply to my text message straightaway | He didn’t reply to this particular text
None, because we’ve been having a good talk prior to this. | Wilson replied to my other texts this evening and it is late, perhaps he fell asleep
We have been talking for hours and I guess his phone ran out of charge | Nope! 😊 |
Let’s be kind to our mind and feed it some good thoughts, so that positive thoughts can grow.