Record any difficulty situations you have with other people (like staring, or comments or being left out), record what your feelings were at the time and any negative or positive thoughts you had about their behaviour. For each negative thought try to think what your best friend would say to make you feel better and challenge those negative thoughts?

If you’re a bit stuck for ideas of what to write for this activity, take a look at the examples below.

1. Difficult situations with other people that I have experienced today:

2. What was I thinking at the time?

3. How did these thoughts make me feel?

4. What would my best friend say to challenge my negative thoughts and make me feel better?

5. Think of three good things each day that have happened to you and record them here.

These good things can be small, things that made your life easier or made you smile. Like someone holding a door open for you or smiling at you in the street. If you spend time looking for the positive things that happen to you, your brain will start to learn to look for these positive things and stop focusing on the negatives.