When someone else's optimism makes us feel bad for expressing our own emotions, it's

annoying. We all have our own individual response mechanisms to certain events and situations,

which cause us to revisit a range of past traumas, anxieties, or regrets. To everyone his or her

own in how they resolve problems. Being the optimist in the room is obviously a plus, but even

optimism needs to be used delicately.

When you do a critique, you need a balanced discussion of strengths, weaknesses, and notable

features.

Strengths

Cognitive reframing, whether it is practiced independently or with the help of a therapist, can be
a helpful way to turn problems or negative thoughts into opportunities for change and growth.
While this technique is often used in therapy, it's something that you can use at home as well.
With practice, you can learn to remind yourself that your initial conclusion is only one possible
explanation.Cognitive reframing teaches you to ask yourself questions like, "Is there another
way to look at this situation?" or, "What are some other possible reasons this could have
happened?"

 Cognitive reframing has been proven effective to help minimize anxiety and depression
and enhance quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic.6 Shamblaw AL, Rumas RL, Best
MW. Coping during the COVID-19 pandemic: Relations with mental health and quality of
life. Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne. 2021;62(1):92-100. doi:10.1037/cap0000263
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 A study on practitioners who treated individuals with substance use disorder found that
cognitive reframing helped them experience less burnout and greater treatment results.7.
Madrigal KB. Practitioner cognitive reframing: Working more effectively in addictions. Fed Pract.
2017;34(8):26-27.
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 In caregivers of individuals with dementia, cognitive reframing was found to reduce
caregiver anxiety, depression, and stress and enhance communication and overall quality
of life.8. Mueser KT, Gottlieb JD, Xie H, et al. Evaluation of cognitive restructuring for post-
traumatic stress disorder in people with severe mental illness. Br J Psychiatry. 2015;206(6):501-508.
doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.114.147926
 One study on people with mental illness and PTSD found that cognitive restructuring
reduced symptoms and improved functioning.3. Vernooij-Dassen M, Draskovic I, McCleery J,
 Downs M. Cognitive reframing for carers of people with dementia. Cochrane Database Syst Rev.
2011;11:CD005318. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD005318.pub2
 A 2014 study showed that cognitive restructuring reduced post-event processing (PEP),
or the reflective thoughts you have after a social situation, for individuals with social
anxiety disorder. Shikatani B, Antony MM, Kuo JR, Cassin SE. The impact of cognitive
restructuring and mindfulness strategies on postevent processing and affect in social anxiety
disorder. J Anxiety Disord. 2014;28(6):570-579. doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2014.05.012

1. It offers an alternative perspective or viewpoint to a problem.

2. It helps reduce stress, anxiety, and ruminating thoughts.
3. It helps reduce burnout and enhances the overall quality of life.
4. It helps improve self-reflection and self-awareness when it
comes to thought processing.
5. It can also help improve compassion and develop positive self-
talk.
Weakness

The downside to the reframing skill is doing it so relentlessly that we don’t let ourselves feel

what we feel. Our negative feelings often fuel our urgency or effort to do something differently,

to ensure undesired outcomes don’t show up again. If we are using all our energy to make

something better in our own minds or to convince others it’s not so bad, we might miss the

lesson learned or call to action. Another downside is annoying the people around us who need to

be bummed out for a minute. 

Sometimes we just need to be a little grumpy about something. While we can do a lot of good by

offering up a way to re-think something, we might also need to let people feel what they’re

feeling. People who are incessantly negative take us down for sure, but there are occasions

where the incessantly positive person does the same thing by insisting their rosy disposition and

positive take is the only right response. It’s frustrating when someone else’s positivity makes us

feel guilty about processing our own feelings. We all have our unique response systems—
different events and circumstances awaken in us a variety of old wounds, fears or regrets. To

each their own on working through them. It is undoubtedly a positive to be the optimist in the

room, but even optimism needs to be wielded with sensitivity.

Reframing takes a problematic situation and presents it in a new way that allows the

client to adopt a more positive, constructive perspective. Reframing changes the conceptual or

emotional viewpoint of a situation and changes its meaning by placing it in another contextual

framework that also fits the same facts of the original situation. The goal of reframing is to help

the client see the situation from another vantage point, making it seem less problematic and

more normal, and thus more open to solution. When reframing, the professional counselor offers

a new point of view to the client in the hope that the client will see the situation differently and

thus act more suitably. This alternative point of view must fit the situation as well as or even

better than the client’s original point of view in order to be convincing to the client. If successful,

reframing may result in the client seeing a previously unsolvable problem as solvable or seeing

it as no longer a problem at all.

Reframing the mind (reframed of mind) is used to help the counselee limit the overt and

covert mind statements that are less meaningful in the counselee’s mind through the

consequences, they produce themselves. The underlying assumption is the framing of the mind

parallel to the reframed which is administered or assisted by the counselor. In other words, the

reframed presented itself, like the reframed administered from the outside, is perceived by its

urgent function of meaningful thoughts. Reframing meaning is a way of seeing problems from

various sides that are built by the counselee themselves for interaction with the environment.
 The client discussed that she had problems with her new schedule as she has been

procrastinating a lot and feeling overwhelmed with the tasks that she has to do. Since her way of

doing things is different than how she used to handle things she may not know how to deal with

this environment. I decided to use the reframing technique as to allow her to reframe what she

finds as negative into something positive. She found having a more flexible schedule as negative

because she was used to having a structured way of doing things but by reframing that she

understood that her flexible schedule can allow her to do more things than if she were to have a

structured schedule. As well as being able to develop her own routine was a struggle as she was

used to the structure, but reframing allowed her to realize that being able to develop your own

schedule can work to her own advantage.

Reframing the mind, also known as "reframed of mind," is a technique used to help a client
minimize the overt and covert assertions that have less significance in their minds due to the
outcomes they create for themselves.

The purpose of reframing is to assist the client in viewing the issue from a different angle,
making it appear less troubling and more normal and, thus, more amenable to resolution

You may train yourself to constantly remind yourself that there are other explanations

besides the one you initially came to asking oneself questions like "Is there another way to look

at this situation?" or "What are some other possible reasons this could have happened?" is a skill

you can learn through cognitive reframing.

Another drawback is disturbing those who are around and might use a moment of

sadness.

Sometimes it's necessary to express a little annoyance.

We all have our own individual response mechanisms to certain events and situations, which
cause us to revisit a range of past traumas, anxieties, or regrets. To everyone his or her own in
how they resolve problems. Being the optimist in the room is obviously a plus, but even
optimism needs to be used delicately.