Average Brain Has Up To 50,000 Daily Thoughts And 70% Of Them Are Negative

Question: How many daily thoughts do we have?

Answer: It has been estimated that an average brain has anywhere from 25,000 to 50,000 thoughts a day and 70% of them are believed to be negative. The negative thinking is actually the depression speaking. It’s what depression sounds like. Depression in fact manifests in negative thinking before it creates negative affect. People generate negative thoughts so automatically they are unaware that it is happening. What most people forget in the process is that this is actually a choice they are making.

One of the most powerful actions you can take in combating depression is to understand how critical the quality of your thinking is to maintaining and even intensifying your depression—and that the quickest way to change how you feel is to change how you think. Often enough you can’t control how you feel, but you can always control how you think. There’s an active choice you can take—if you are aware that changing your thinking is important.

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Psychology Today