Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a way for a person to examine their own thinking, and to provide different thoughts to their automatic thought.
In the example given on the giithub page a person (I'll call him Bob) has just been to interview and feels they did terribly. Bob also thinks that the interviewer now hates him.
Bob (who has a bit of familiarity with CBT) thinks this type of thinking involves "mind reading" (knowing what the interviewer thinks), "fortune telling" (knowing what the future holds), and "catastrophising" (assuming the worst).
The next stages for Bob might be to recognise that he doesn't actually know how the interviewer feels; that even if the interviewer does hate him well so what; that he doesn't know how badly he did at interview; and even if he did terribly well so what, it's still useful practice.
CBT is NOT about a therapist telling you these things. The therapist is merely telling you how CBT works and leading you into it and training you how to use it. You come up with all your automatic thoughts yourself, you come up with the evidence you have to support those, and then you come up with the alternatives and the evidence to support that.
In the example given on the giithub page a person (I'll call him Bob) has just been to interview and feels they did terribly. Bob also thinks that the interviewer now hates him.
Bob (who has a bit of familiarity with CBT) thinks this type of thinking involves "mind reading" (knowing what the interviewer thinks), "fortune telling" (knowing what the future holds), and "catastrophising" (assuming the worst).
The next stages for Bob might be to recognise that he doesn't actually know how the interviewer feels; that even if the interviewer does hate him well so what; that he doesn't know how badly he did at interview; and even if he did terribly well so what, it's still useful practice.
CBT is NOT about a therapist telling you these things. The therapist is merely telling you how CBT works and leading you into it and training you how to use it. You come up with all your automatic thoughts yourself, you come up with the evidence you have to support those, and then you come up with the alternatives and the evidence to support that.